Sweet Repetition

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

Poetry that centers its movement on repetition—orbiting, unwinding, and returning. Integrating Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, and the works of other poets, this collection explores narrative through abstraction and considers how repetition holds both the power to constrain and to generate. Freud explains how what we repress—what we know but don’t want to acknowledge—reappears in our actions through repetition. Through slips of the tongue or selective memory, we engage with what our unconscious knows, finding knowledge through unknowing. The psychoanalytic session is centered on bringing forth repressed knowledge through acts of unknowing—speaking without thinking—which brings one closer to recognizing an obscured desire. The poetry of Sweet Repetition works in ways akin to the psychoanalytic act. These pulsing poems follow the definitions of the word revolution—to revolve, change direction, unroll, unwind, happen again, repeat, orbit around. Images and words reappear in the motion of Cynthia Cruz’s poems, inviting us into their revolutionary, political, and cumulative effects.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-10-24
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:113 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Phoenix Poets
Antal sidor:64
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226843766

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Cynthia Cruz is the author of eight books of poetry, two works of nonfiction, and one novel. Her collection Hotel Oblivion was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award, and is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow for Poetry. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the European Graduate School.

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"It’s clear that Cruz’s Sweet Repetition is determined to come at the world from a canted angle, a perspective that is by turns surreal, droll and slightly terrifying. . . . As Sweet Repetition suggests, it’s not just poem titles that repeat throughout the book, but also images, ideas and emotional states, all of which grow richer upon rereading."

Innehållsförteckning

OneNachtstillebenLambAfter PlatonovClinicSelf-Portrait in Parked Red Camaro, Modesto, CaliforniaFragment (Dora)After PlatonovClinicRaspberry SyrupA Horse Striking Its Hoof on the Ground at MidnightPlay in Which Darkness FallsTwoIn This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It ShinesNachtstillebenUntitledCharity BallsFragmentCharity BallsCaliforniaNachtstillebenUntitledWhite PorcelainCharity BallsDay OneThis Accident That Was My LifeNachtstillebenUntitledCharity BallsClinicDay OneUntitledThreeAll of Us or NoneAcknowledgmentsNotes on the Text