For anyone who has ever confused love with longing, stayed too long, or left too early.
Through intimate and darkly funny poems, Isabelle Correa explores heartbreak, desire, healing, and the lifelong search for a love that doesn't require losing yourself.
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Out September 2026
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ABOUT THE BOOK
It starts with Judge Judy and evangelical youth groups.
It ends somewhere in Mexico City,
still asking the same question.
Isabelle reads from the collection
Praise for Portrait of a Person
This is a collection that refuses to behave or be boxed or be anything other than full and open hearted.
Isabelle Correa writes desire as collision; body, memory, and longing crashing against the fragile idea of safety.
These poems are sharp, darkly funny, and devastatingly honest about how we relentlessly return to intimacy, even when it hurts.
PORTRAIT OF A PERSON WHO PUSHES LOVE AWAY IN FEAR OF LOSING IT is one
of the strongest poetry collections I’ve read in years.
This book earns every word of its long title, opening with the force of revelation and never loosening its grip, dropping the reader into poems with teeth, hunger, humor, and devastating honesty.
These poems name names. They confess. They seduce. They expose the speaker in all her contradictions: desperate, self-aware, sensual, grieving, absurd, alive
What makes this collection great is its ability to hold fantasy and brutal reality in the same breath. One moment, the poet is "letting deranged men call me baby," the next she is unraveling generations of longing, shame, desire, and reinvention with startling precision.
This is a book about love and performance, loneliness, memory, and self-mythology. It aches with the question of whether telling the truth is worth it at all, then answers by continuing to tell it anyway.
Portrait of a Person Who Pushes Love Away in Fear of Losing It is a feverish examination of desire, heartbreak, and the patterns we return to even as they unravel us.
Correa writes with unflinching intimacy and emotional precision that pull you in and don’t let you go.
