Binding: Paperback
Description: An astounding debut. Adrienne Raphel The New York Times Book Review A dazzling love story in poems about one woman's coming - out coming - of - age and coming undone A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems in the prevailing style. She also has dreams: of being seduced by a throng of older women of kissing a friend in a dorm - room closet. But the dreams are private not real. One night she meets another woman at a bar and an escape hatch swings open in the floor of her life. She falls into a consuming affair into queerness polyamory kink power and loss humiliation and freedom and an enormous surge of desire that lets her leave herself behind. Maggie Millner's captivating seductive debut is a love story in poems that explores obsession gender identity and the art and act of literary transformation. In rhyming couplets and prose vignettes Couplets chronicles the strictures structures and pitfalls of relationships the mirroring the pleasing the small jealousies and disappointments and how the people we love can show us who we truly are." An endlessly inventive wise exhilarating book. Garth Greenwell author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You
Title: Couplets A Love Story
Author(s): Millner Maggie
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374612818
Pages: 128 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/6/2024