Adrift - Paperback

by Valeria Correa Fiz (Author), Lizdanelly López Chiclana (Translator)

The poems in Adrift focus on erotic desire, loss, and exile, and reveal two central tensions of the human condition: what one possesses and what slips away; what is desired and what can never be fully attained. This personal anthology by the award-winning Argentine poet, highly celebrated in Spain, offers a deep reflection on the transient nature of passions and life, and embraces language as a place where the fleeting can find a form of permanence. In this collection, the written word stands as a tool to combat the void, a balm that covers the wounds of loss and absence. The book closes with one final question: who controls the poetic act, the poet or the words themselves? That tension between control and surrender, and the instability it creates, is part of the mystery of the poetic craft--and of life itself.

Author Biography

Valeria Correa Fiz is a Spanish-Argentine writer based in Madrid. She is the author of La condición animal, a finalist for the IV Gabriel García Márquez Short Story Prize and the 2017 Setenil Prize, and Había un jardín (both published by Páginas de Espuma). Her poetic work includes: El álbum oscuro, Invierno a destiempo, Museo de pérdidas y Así el deseo. She has recevied the Manuel del Cabral International Prize, the Claudio Rodríguez International Prize, and the Clara de Campoamor Prize.

Lizdanelly López Chiclana is a student at Columbia University, majoring in Philosophy and Hispanic Studies. She is passionate about the field of translation and has edited Spanish to English translations such as Negras by Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro and Desolación by Gabriela Mistral. She is also one of two Editors-in-Chief of Portales: LAIC Undergraduate Journal. Adrift is her first book-length translation of poetry.