Maggie Millner’s debut poetry collection COUPLETS: A LOVE STORY has enjoyed a firestorm of wonderful press since its release. A fantastic review from Kamran Javadizadeh for The New Yorker raves: “In COUPLETS, Maggie Millner uses rhyme, confession, and surprising metaphor to create a fresh portrait of desire…Millner’s ultimate achievement is to draw open the distance between the book’s first line and its ostensibly identical second, between the self that one takes as given and the self, no less true, that one cannot help but make.” The book was featured on The New York Times’ Editors’ Choice list this week, and called out by poetry editor Gregory Cowles: “If you’re on the hunt for a good book to reset your own brain, might I suggest Maggie Millner’s COUPLETS: A LOVE STORY? It’s a story of romantic attachment and romantic betrayal told almost entirely in rhymed couplets, and it’s a balancing act of such sly virtuosity that it may give you vertigo.” Meanwhile, for The New York Times Book Review, Adrienne Raphel writes: “Maggie Millner’s first book, COUPLETS, breathes new life into an old form to tell the story of a romance that catches its heroine off guard.” A review by Kristen Millares Young for The Washington Post praises: “While unmasking the ‘long and torturous’ journey that self-knowledge requires, Millner delights in the small pivots and grooves afforded by strict verse. Even the line breaks provide fractals of the fractured themes of longing, grief, hope and passion. Restless, imaginative and daring, COUPLETS advances the canon of the erotic.” Lastly, a review by Ana Cecilia Alvarez for The Los Angeles Review of Books raves: “With Millner’s well-attuned sense of metaphor, we know we are in good hands. Her verse is neat and supple…This gentle refusal of subjectivity is etched into the book’s own form: something of a novel, something of a collection of poems, and something of a memoir.” Farrar, Straus & Giroux published COUPLETS on February 7, 2023.