Archon / AfterA 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 archive, Kocher's archon determines what pieces of the past may be preserved, housed, documented, ordered, and reviewed. Through these poems, the archon dives deep into