pleasureis amiracle

Description
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.
About this 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.
Reviews
"This group of poems changes on each page, apparently enacting what it says, 'feeling what it's like to feel things over a continuum instead of a sharp peak and valley.' It's not that this sentiment is so much a breakthrough (this statement is not unlike William James's about 'feelings of and,' to take one example of how the century has dealt with writing feelings)--it's the invention of an explosive, wry diagrammatic specific talking that makes the group of poems so great and makes them stand independent, wanting their own small book." --Simone White, in praise of parallel bars
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