godhousePoems 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 Kochers poems envision this body as a union of god and soul that, within our material world, encompasses love and hate, joy and despair. The body is a site of divine