Bianca Rae Messinger

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 reconnect and re-cohere, resisting separation and challenging...