Ruth Ellen Kocher Libros

Exploring the complexities of identity, the book features a principal narrator who embodies a disembodied "I" within a dismantled minstrel show framework. This narrative employs a unique third voice to engage with characters and the audience, presenting a female perspective that is both self and character. Through a rich tapestry of figures like Eartha Kitt and Malcolm X, it delves into the sublime and challenges traditional notions of mastery, asserting that lyricism transcends personal expression and drama extends beyond mere performance.

"If the human experience is the equivalent of the universe looking back at itself, godhouse takes that notion a few steps further by centering cosmology in a raced and gendered body, in a union of god and soul that, within our material world, easily vacillates between love and hate, joy and despair. The body manifests as divine presence made mortal, as an infinity singing the generative human arc of being-ness with an electric resonance. In godhouse, the reader encounters the universe made personal and celebratory, as an infinity that endures the complications of flesh and the necessary resistance to our most ungodly and monstrous expressions of personhood"--