Aunque me extinga

Creator: Sofía Crespo Madrid

Title: Aunque me extinga

Date: 2024

Language: Spanish

Description:

"A poetic song of migration, uprootedness, and love as resistance against pain and silence. Aunque me extinga is a book written from the perspective of migration, foreignness, and displacement, woven together through desire and love as barricades against the siege of death and silence. Written during the author's process of "regularizing" her migration status, this collection of poems evokes family history, distance from one’s origins, and the arrival in a new country—the construction of an imagined space and the will to find alternative ways to express and share love.

For in these poems, love is a reverberation that transforms and subverts, a mode of both individual and collective identification, a process rather than a state or destination. Interwoven with poetry and the figure of César Vallejo, Aunque me extinga becomes a song against pain and abandonment, a collection deeply rooted in the present—a social context that demands our attention and calls for more generous ways of understanding those who leave their homelands behind.

“This book is a hand that pushes us toward life. As the author reminds us: ‘writing is a way to stave off death,’ to build a new nest, a refuge of beauty—one that is not devoid of conflict, but free from violence. That is why, in these pages, there is a voice that moves from the wounds of migration to the creative core of love. Farewell and desire drive language toward the borders of geography, of poetry, and of the body—the true map of hips, feet, and mysteries. With the sensitivity of a great poet, Sofía Crespo Madrid reminds us that writing can also be a home, a land where we can reimagine ourselves and love more intensely.” (Mónica Ojeda, translated from Spanish by Archivo Venezuela)

Source: Candaya

Subject: Literature, poetry, Venezuela, uprootedness, exile, migration, Sofía Crespo Madrid

Type: Text

Format: Printed book

Rights: External reference

Relation: "Two Video Art Pieces Based on Poems by Sofía Crespo Madrid"

Identifier: ISBN 978-84-18504-75-4

Collection: Poetry

Tags: exile, Literature, Migration, poetry, uprootedness

Citation: Sofía Crespo Madrid, Aunque me extinga, Candaya Poesía, 2024, ISBN 978-84-18504-75-4, accessed September 22, 2026, https://archivovenezuela.com/en/items/show/85