RaveLos Angeles Review of BooksMillner’s book, which follows the arc of two love affairs, also queers the confessional poem, using formal strictures to enable candor ... In rhyming couplets that zigzag down the page like urban fire escapes and in prose poems that visually mimic trapdoors, she narrates her exit from common-law marriage and monogamy — conventions thought to domesticate desire ... Although some couplets, elsewhere in the book, fall flat or seem fatuous — a rhyme, for instance, between “the bagels” and “practicing your Kegels” — the pattern of echoes is generally pleasing ... Millner’s use of the second-person draws the reader further into the experience. We are conscripted, in propria persona, as we confess and adjudicate, narrate and editorialize ... Millner seeks communion with readers with whom she might share a privileged conversation, a confessional that does not aim at absolution but \'proof of life […] in the aching.\'
