pleasureis amiracle (Paperback)

Bianca Rae Messinger

ISBN 10: 1643622412 / ISBN 13: 9781643622415

Published by Nightboat Books, New York, 2025

About this Item

Paperback. 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. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: pleasureis amiracle (Paperback)
• Publisher: Nightboat Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1643622412
• ISBN 13: 9781643622415
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD IN LESBIAN POETRY

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 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.