{"product_id":"sweet-repetition-9780226843766","title":"Sweet Repetition","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoetry that centers its movement on repetition--orbiting, unwinding, and returning.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The poetry of\u003ci\u003e Sweet Repetition\u003c\/i\u003e works in ways akin to the psychoanalytic act. These pulsing poems follow the definitions of the word \u003ci\u003erevolution\u003c\/i\u003e--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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCynthia Cruz\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eight books of poetry, two works of nonfiction, and one novel. Her collection \u003ci\u003eHotel Oblivion\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51661035897106,"sku":"9780226843766","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b0674387-31bc-43e0-b943-1dc09553c4c1.jpg?v=1760434360","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sweet-repetition-9780226843766","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}