Portrait of a Person Who Pushes Love Away in Fear of Losing It
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Portrait of a Person Who Pushes Love Away in Fear of Losing It
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PORTRAIT OF A PERSON WHO PUSHES LOVE AWAY IN FEAR OF LOSING IT is a lyric, brutally honest, darkly funny portrait of a woman raised on violence, God, and American television, who spends her adult life trying to understand why she keeps mistaking hurt for love and keeps coming back anyway.
The collection begins in a childhood of Judge Judy reruns and evangelical youth groups, where the speaker learns that love is both salvation and weapon. From there, the poems plunge into the mess of her twenties and thirties: canceled weddings, mechanical bulls, tarot readers, bar bathrooms, and overseas apartments, a long parade of almosts and not-quites. Desire is a comedy and a haunting, a high and a hangover. The speaker cheats, self-sabotages, kisses everyone at parties, learns "to eat men like air."
Throughout, Correa braids intergenerational trauma, religious myth, and pop culture-Fleabag, Barbie, Sylvia Plath, country fairs, typhoon warnings, the Oscars-into an intimate, cinematic interior life. The voice is confessional and self-aware, willing to be ridiculous, horny, grandiose, and devastated in the same stanza. The speaker is bisexual, chronically hopeful, and permanently suspicious of hope; she wants to be a wife, a saint, a poet, a problem, and ultimately a person who can love without disappearing.
The collection closes not with a neat redemption arc, but with a hard-won willingness to stay-inside her own body, her grief, her desire, and her life-to see what love might be if it isn't a wound.
Book Details
- Publisher:
- Arcana Poetry Press
- ISBN:
- 9781968451110
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 146
- Authors:
- Isabelle Correa
- Published Date:
- 2026-09-15
- Language:
- English
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Rarely do I open a book and feel the voice sweep me away as quickly as I did with Isabelle Correa's second collection, Portrait of a Person Who Pushes Love Away in Fear of Losing It (Arcana Poetry Press). These poems hit like a rollercoaster—shocking reveals, deft language, original imagery. Each one pushes you forward to the next in a strong, confident voice. Correa's not bending to anyone else's traditions or expectations. She has a pliability to her words like a sapling excels in both flexibility and strength. At times piercingly vulnerable, at others steadfast as a rock. She defies expectations.