God in Her Ruffled Dress

God in Her Ruffled Dress enacts conversations between illness and wellness, body and spirit, the temporal and the eternal. These poems chart a personal investigation of the divine, in which erotic desire is central, feminist awareness is inherent, and gender is many-faceted. But the spark for each poem is not ideology, but rather, a lyrical impulse to search and illuminate.

Bookended by two poem-prayers, the book's four sections move from healing to various forms of creating:

- "Return to th...