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.
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.
原文摘录
· · · · · ·
Some mornings, leaving my girlfriend’s
house, I’d glimpse my whole existence,
all its eras, as a single arc—unified, unbroken.
I saw a person who kissed mostly men,
wrote poems in the prevailing style, owned a cat.
I saw a different person after that,
and before, I saw a little girl.
What was I saying? That there were
these different selves—I need you to see them—
they were shapes made out of lines, and then
one day they all began to cross, the lines,
as if by some obscure design
the analysis of which became the purpose
of my life. Or maybe the pattern was
my life, and its analysis
merely my living. 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 c... (查看原文)
“you could have had everything you wanted, had it been what you wanted.” and “Love found me twice, at once. if it never happen again i’ll still be luckier than the moon.”
应该可以列入’hot girl fiction’那个门类里，隐隐约约觉得有点fleabag的气质—大概是因为常出现的丧式幽默。为了新女友离开旧男友的女诗人用诗和短文交替着记录了一段感情关系的开始、兴盛和褪色。写诗的时候用“你”，写短文的时候用“我”。’I hope someday an archivist will pull our texts out of the nuclear detritu...应该可以列入’hot girl fiction’那个门类里，隐隐约约觉得有点fleabag的气质—大概是因为常出现的丧式幽默。为了新女友离开旧男友的女诗人用诗和短文交替着记录了一段感情关系的开始、兴盛和褪色。写诗的时候用“你”，写短文的时候用“我”。’I hope someday an archivist will pull our texts out of the nuclear detritus to display. This is the sentimental stuff, they’ll say, of homo Homo sapiens in love.’(展开)
不敢想象是怎么写出来的，也没法译。时刻担心delicacy会突然垮掉，密度分布确有不均。占据，被写下的句子，读过的故事，曾经的爱人，在形式的限制中学会品尝自由，以哪种性态去爱，栖身于几份欲望，也是选择此世行走的方式（原文太恰切）。形式会获得自足性，需要以血肉供养，诗人目视诗句的歇斯底里。想起了Frost的Birches. No one is looking.
0 有用 fugue 2023-05-30 02:12:21 美国
like a beautiful deciduous slut of language!
0 有用 小捌 2023-04-06 23:49:02 美国
“you could have had everything you wanted, had it been what you wanted.” and “Love found me twice, at once. if it never happen again i’ll still be luckier than the moon.”
0 有用 阿萌 2024-08-07 00:52:14 辽宁
应该可以列入’hot girl fiction’那个门类里，隐隐约约觉得有点fleabag的气质—大概是因为常出现的丧式幽默。为了新女友离开旧男友的女诗人用诗和短文交替着记录了一段感情关系的开始、兴盛和褪色。写诗的时候用“你”，写短文的时候用“我”。’I hope someday an archivist will pull our texts out of the nuclear detritu... 应该可以列入’hot girl fiction’那个门类里，隐隐约约觉得有点fleabag的气质—大概是因为常出现的丧式幽默。为了新女友离开旧男友的女诗人用诗和短文交替着记录了一段感情关系的开始、兴盛和褪色。写诗的时候用“你”，写短文的时候用“我”。’I hope someday an archivist will pull our texts out of the nuclear detritus to display. This is the sentimental stuff, they’ll say, of homo Homo sapiens in love.’ (展开)
0 有用 滑步东 2023-12-22 00:11:56 北京
不敢想象是怎么写出来的，也没法译。时刻担心delicacy会突然垮掉，密度分布确有不均。占据，被写下的句子，读过的故事，曾经的爱人，在形式的限制中学会品尝自由，以哪种性态去爱，栖身于几份欲望，也是选择此世行走的方式（原文太恰切）。形式会获得自足性，需要以血肉供养，诗人目视诗句的歇斯底里。想起了Frost的Birches. No one is looking.
0 有用 Joie 2024-01-08 19:56:44 上海
笑 虽然和萨福比不厚道 不仅是语言的inflation 还是情欲的inflation （摇头摇头 网红书单不可信