Maggie Millner

Maggie Millners seductive debut is a novel-in-verse about a woman in her late twenties who leaves a long-term relationship with a boyfriend for another woman. The affair thrusts her from an outwardly conventional life into queerness, polyamory, kink, and unalloyed, consuming desire. What ensues is an exploration of obsession, gender, identity-making, sexual experiment, and the art and act of literary transformation. Couplets is a dazzling fusion of form and content, chronicling the strictures, structures and pitfalls of relationships - the mirroring, the pleasing, the small jealousies and disappointments. Playful, clever, lovestruck, griefstruck, its narrator dances a tightrope of her own invention with captivating passion and skill.Advance praise: I deeply adore this shattering, sexy, funny book- rarely have I felt more privileged to be granted a view into a mind than I did while reading Couplets. Megan NolanTotally compelling and brilliant. I couldnt put it down. A work of precise craft and intelligence. Intimate, funny and moving. Cecilia KnappCouplets compelled me like a love affair-I didnt want to eat, didnt want to go to bed, didnt want to get off the subway, I just wanted to hear the story it was telling, which was, ultimately, a story about form-what are the forms (of intimacy, vocation, domesticity, verse, pleasure) we want to be held by, and to break free from? I cannot remember the last time I was this gripped by a voice or its questions. Reading it was a thrill, a rearrangement of my psychic molecules. Leslie Jamison, author of Make It Scream, Make It BurnA dazzling, feather-light tour de force-witty and effervescent and insightful, and so sexy, and so real. Elif Batuman, author of Either/OrIn this riveting debut, Maggie Millner makes the rhyming couplet-that supposedly staid, outmoded vehicle of 18th century moralism-an engine of radical metamorphosis and scorching sex. Couplets plunges us into desire so fierce it overwrites existence, exiling us from the lives we know. This is an endlessly inventive, wise, exhilarating book. Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You

Una mujer lleva una vida ordinaria en Brooklyn. Escribe poesía. Tiene un novio. Comparten un gato. También tiene sueños de ser seducida por mujeres mayores, de rendirse en una danza multiorgásmica en el suelo de la habitacion de su amiga de la universidad. Una noche, conoce a una mujer en un bar y una valvula de escape se abre en su vida. Se deja perder en una aventura absorbente hacia lo inexplorado, el poliamor, el fetichismo, el poder y la perdida, la humillacion y la libertad, y una enorme ola de deseo que le permite dejar atras a su yo pasado, al tiempo que se ve forzada a descubrirse en todas las versiones de si misma.

Una dona porta una vida ordinària a Brooklyn. Escriu poesia. Té un xicot. Comparteixen un gat. També té somnis de ser seduïda per dones grans, de rendir-se en una dansa multiogásmica al terra de l’ha

Una mujer lleva una vida ordinaria en Brooklyn. Escribe poesía. Tiene un novio. Comparten un gato. También tiene sueños de ser seducida por mujeres mayores, de rendirse en una danza multiorgásmica en el suelo de la habitacion de su amiga de la universidad. Una noche, conoce a una mujer en un bar y una valvula de escape se abre en su vida. Se deja perder en una aventura absorbente hacia lo inexplorado, el poliamor, el fetichismo, el poder y la perdida, la humillacion y la libertad, y una enorme ola de deseo que le permite dejar atras a su yo pasado, al tiempo que se ve forzada a descubrirse en todas las versiones de si misma.