Isabelle Correa’s Book Notes music playlist for her poetry collection Portrait of a Person Who Pushes Love Away in Fear of Losing It

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Isabelle Correa’s poetry collection Portrait of a Person Who Pushes Love Away in Fear of Losing It is dark, funny, and moving. David Gate wrote of the book: “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.” In her own words, here is Isabelle Correa’s Book Notes music playlist for her poetry collection Portrait of a Person Who Pushes Love Away in Fear of Losing It: I’m very…