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.
| ISBN: | 9780226843766 |
| Publication date: | 25th November 2025 |
| Author: | Cynthia Cruz |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press an imprint of University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 64 pages |
| Series: | Phoenix Poets |
| Genres: |
Poetry |
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.
Sweet Repetition features in the following genres: Poetry
Sweet Repetition is available in Paperback
Sweet Repetition was written by Cynthia Cruz and published by The University of Chicago Press an imprint of University of Chicago Press
Sweet Repetition has 64 pages
Yes it is part of Phoenix Poets series