Excerpt from 'Repetition [ Le Monde Irrel ]': Night Rides through Paris
Cycling through Paris to cope with grief
Praise for Repetition by Wayne Koestenbaum
Maggie Nelson's praise for Repetition
Starred Review from Publishers Weekly
Repetition is a poetic memoir of a daughter’s grief after her father’s death, as told to a loved one. These meditative prose poems journey through Paris, New York and Berlin on bike rides “to watch the tower sparkle in the distance†and on walks “past the zoo in the dark, the animals calling.†Paul Celan and Gertrude Stein accompany the daughter through her grief until the speaker can finally say, “it’s enough—you can go now.â€