Pleasureis Amiracle

A book of poems written out of a depressive episode, in which a devotional approach to music and desire reestablishes communication between the poet's body and the world. In pleasureis amiracle, the poems invoke the lyric and refuse it, moving between time and sound--words re-connect and re-cohere, resisting separation and challenging readers to feel their way to meaning. Perception becomes a many-limbed entanglement from which the reader is never let go. Music is both divine and accessible, a sublimation of everyday movements into an erotics of sensation. An experiment in form as much as content, it asks what can be cured by music, what is trans about desire, and how can one allow the body to feel what the mind sees, or vice versa.

Author: Bianca Rae Messinger
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: 01/14/2025
Pages: 104
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781643622415
ISBN10: 1643622412
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | LGBTQ+
- Poetry | Women Authors
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Love & Erotica

About the Author
Bianca Rae Messinger is a poet and translator living and working in Buffalo, NY. She is the author of the chapbooks The Love of God (2016) and parallel bars (2021) and translator of In the Jungle There is Much to Do (2020) among others.