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I Love, I Love [1]

Creative Nonfiction [2]
9.3.20

Henri Cole’s latest memoir, Orphic Paris (New York Review of Books, 2018), mixes the forms of autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs for a complete and intimate look into his time spent in Paris. Each line in the last essay of the book begins with “j’aime,” as Cole uses anaphora, a form which repeats a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses, to write a final moving ode to Paris. Whether it be by your travels or ancestry, what city or place do you feel captivated by? Write a personal essay that uses the repetition of a word or phrase, or the anaphora form [3] to examine your connection to that particular place.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/i_love_i_love [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/creativenonfiction [3] https://poets.org/glossary/anaphora