Bianca Rae Messinger: pleasureis amiracle

Join us for a reading and conversation with poet Bianca Rae Messinger, author of pleasureis amiracle. Bianca Rae Messinger will be in conversation with Hodges Adams for the event. This in-person event will be free and open to the public. We recommend arriving early for the best seating.

About the Book: 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 (Inpatient Press, 2016) and parallel bars (Center for Book Arts, 2021) and translator of In the Jungle There is Much to DO (comunidad del sur [mauricio gatti], Berlin Biennale, 2020), among others.