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Repetition

The Incantatory Effect of Repetition

February 5, 2018February 5, 2018 / Laura Haugen

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For my latest Ploughshares blog, I highlighted two memoirs that left me spellbound. Roxane Gay’s Hunger and Melissa Febos’s Abandon Me both deal with longing to be understood and fighting the instinct to try to disappear. Both also use repetition as a literary device to achieve a lyricism, rhythm, and resonance that build power. Read more…

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