Results for "Kocher, Ruth Ellen"

 A surreal poetry collection considering memory and self-discovery through the character of the archon, the keeper of the mental archive.   In Ruth Ellen Kocher’s Archon / After, the archive is revealed as both a form of violence and of memory, of site and of event. As keeper of the archiv... Read More about Archon / After

Poems that consider the human body as a meeting place of the infinite and the mortal.   Starting with the idea that the human experience is the universe looking back at itself, godhouse takes the notion a few steps further by centering cosmology within a raced and gendered body. Ruth Ellen Koch... Read More about godhouse

Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than one hundred award-winning poets, including Jericho Brown, Justin Philip Reed, and Tracy K. Smith, with themed essays on poetics from celebrated scholars such as Kwame Dawes, Meta DuEwa ... Read More about Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry

A gathering of innovative, speculative fictions by writers of color, both established and emerging   The innovative fictions in Infinite Constellations showcase the voices and visions of 30 remarkable writers, both new and established, from the global majority: Native American/First Nation writ... Read More about Infinite Constellations: An Anthology of Identity, Culture, and Speculative Conjunctions

Praising the power of lyric drama, T. S. Eliot described the use of third voice as a means for characters to address and interrogate one another, and second voice as a way for characters to talk to the audience. In this daring new book, the principal narrator presents as a caricature reflecting the ... Read More about Third Voice: Poems

domina Un/blued dislocates the traditional slave narrative, placing the slave’s utterance within the map and chronicle of conquest. Charting a diaspora of the human spirit as well as a diaspora of an individual body, Ruth Ellen Kocher’s award-winning new book reaches beyond the story of historical i... Read More about domina Un/blued