A review by letto_in_casa_da_benedetta
Couplets: A Love Story by Maggie Millner

4.0

“So I became after all
not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they
conducted
with my mouth. And when I was not
unbelievably
sad, I was moved unbelievably
to hold inside me both my lovers
and to introduce them to each other
there, in the hollow just above the
heart,
among the little folds where the voice
starts.”

(…)

“Sexuality is,
after all, a formal concern:
finding for one's time on earth
a shape that feels more native than
imposed
a shape in which desire, having chosen
it, can multiply.
And isn't love itself a type
of rhyme? And don't gender and genre share one root?”