Pleasure Principle : Poems

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“A wry… propensity for narrative.” — The New York Times

“…A propulsive, vibrating force—this is a poetics of presence, of that which is tangible—observable, seen, and so limited—and everything inarticulable that lies beneath it.”- The Rumpus

“There are many poets writing spare, hyper-efficient lyric, but you would be hard-pressed to find one as sure-footed and savvy, as relentlessly good as this one.” — McSweeney’s

”Incantatory… cosmic….”— The Adroit Journal

“Elegant… bold…. the poet’s language is full of humour, pathos, and a bold curiosity for error.”— Metal Magazine

“In all the careful observations and intense feeling of this collection, its greatest insights hold the dichotomies of what it means to be human.”– Los Angeles Review of Books

“Here is a poetics of quiet resistance and shining anti-epiphany, of queer surplus matched with lyric understatement. Spare yet lush, cerebral yet sensual, Pleasure Principle draws our attention toward a world at once lovable and unlivable.”— Maggie Millner, author of Couplets: A Love Story

“Beneath the understated precision of Madeleine Cravens’s line is an electric current of desire—for truth, to touch. Images are rendered with archetypal, psychic potency.” —aracelis girmay, author of the black maria