Pleasure Field by Babatunde Adeleke

Pleasure Field is a lush, unflinching exploration of longing, touch, and emotional weather. Rooted in the rhythms of earth and desire, these poems follow the body through hunger, memory, absence, return, and the quiet rituals that make intimacy sacred.

Across pages alive with field imagery, electricity, rainfall, and ripening heat, the collection blurs the boundaries between tenderness and ache, devotion and impulse, spirit and skin.

Each poem listens closely to the ways bodies speak with and without contact, tracing how love deepens when language falters, and touch becomes its own form of prayer.

This is a book for those who believe that longing has seasons, that intimacy has weather, and that the body is its own wide, wild landscape, waiting to be named, tended, and understood.