" 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
