pleasureis amiracle by Bianca Rae Messinger Paperback Book 9781643622415

A book of poems written out of a depressive episode in which a devotional approach to music and desire reestablishes communication between the poets body and the world In pleasureis amiracle the poems invoke the lyric and refuse it moving between time and soundwords reconnect and recohere resisting separation and challenging readers to feel their way to meaning Perception becomes a manylimbed entanglement from which the reader is never let go Music is both divine and accessible a sublimation of everyday movements into an erotics of sensationamp160An 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