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.”

REBECCA REILLY teaches creative writing at The New School, and is a doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center. She taught for a number of years at The University of Paris, at Nanterre, and has taught at The New School, Parsons Paris, as well as Humboldt University in Berlin.