Couplets, by Maggie Millner

In her slim, clever Couplets, Millner takes delight in playing with the traditional form to tell a story about queer longing, desire, and obsession in 21^st- century Brooklyn. Wielding precision like a knife and crafting brevity into meticulous yet dense worlds, she lets her speaker recount her experience of being attracted to a woman and abandoning the banality of a conventional heterosexual partnership, showing how she's been simultaneously undone and liberated by her desire,