"Cynthia Cruz's latest collection, Sweet Repetition, deftly embraces cyclicality and the accumulation of meaning over time. Words, phrases, and titles echo throughout this book-length sequence of poems, forming new constellations with each passing encounter. This lyrical conceit is not merely repetition for repetition's sake, though, but is instead political. The structure of repetition is inherently revolutionary: Repetition revisits and revises, altering the course of history by nature of its movement. By centering ...
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"Cynthia Cruz's latest collection, Sweet Repetition, deftly embraces cyclicality and the accumulation of meaning over time. Words, phrases, and titles echo throughout this book-length sequence of poems, forming new constellations with each passing encounter. This lyrical conceit is not merely repetition for repetition's sake, though, but is instead political. The structure of repetition is inherently revolutionary: Repetition revisits and revises, altering the course of history by nature of its movement. By centering repetition as a structural device, Cruz invites the specter of Sigmund Freud to hover over the book-namely, his 1914 paper "Remembering, Repeating, and Working-Through." In Freudian analysis, the things we repress-what we know but don't want to know-reappear in the actions we repeat. This form of unknowing, of remaining unaware of what our unconscious knows, is to Cruz a form of knowing in and of itself. The minimalist lyricism of Sweet Repetition invites its readers to experience such knowing in real time and to recognize pulsing, unforeseen beauty in the recurrence of images, archetypes, and obsessions"--
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