pleasureis amiracleBianca Rae Messinger 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 soundwords 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