Overview
Un poemario íntimo y feroz sobre el deseo, la ausencia y la huella que deja lo que no pudo ser.
En La calma del volcán, el amor no correspondido no se olvida: se queda en el cuerpo. Late, arde, reaparece. A través de cuatro movimientos —tierra, aire, agua y fuego—, este libro recorre el ciclo emocional de un vínculo inconcluso con la intensidad de la naturaleza misma.
Aquí, la memoria no es solo recuerdo: es piel, es pulsión, es deseo que insiste. Con una voz contemporánea, honesta y profundamente sensorial, Viña Machado construye un viaje de autodescubrimiento donde perder al otro es también una forma de encontrarse. Un recorrido interno que estalla con la fuerza de un volcán que lleva años esperando activarse.
«En estas páginas, a través de sus elementos encontrados, liberó todo lo contenido: sus alquimias y visiones, sus apariciones. Levantó sus reservas y sus temores. Las líneas son llama, son gota, son viento y son arena. Risas, lágrimas, promesas y plegarias.» —Yamid Amat Serna
«Viña escribe como quien ha aprendido a vivir con un volcán adentro: con fuego y pasión, con humor y ternura, con memoria y heridas, y con una calma que no apaga la erupción, sino que la vuelve palabra. La calma del volcán es un libro íntimo, valiente y profundamente femenino, escrito desde el cuerpo y la nostalgia, desde esa inteligencia luminosa y feroz que siempre la ha habitado, y desde esa verdad que solo aparece cuando alguien se atreve a mirarse de frente y convertir su propio incendio en poema.» —Yohir Akerman
«Corre un riesgo el erotismo, pienso yo, y es que mil palabras cuenten la misma escena una y otra vez. Y eso no pasa aquí porque ella está desnuda, más que de la piel, del alma. Y escribe, sin pudor, sobre su fragilidad. Y qué fuerte hay que ser para esto.» —Juan Mosquera
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
An intimate and fierce collection of poems about desire, absence, and the mark left by what could not be.
In The Calm of the Volcano, unrequited love is not forgotten: it remains in the body. It beats, it burns, it reappears. Through four elements—earth, air, water, and fire—this book traces the emotional cycle of an unfulfilled bond with the intensity of nature itself.
Here, memory is not just a recollection: it is skin, it is impulse, it is an insistent desire. With a contemporary, honest, and deeply sensory voice, Viña Machado crafts a journey of self-discovery where losing the other is also a way of finding oneself. An inner journey that erupts with the force of a volcano that has been waiting years to erupt.
“In these pages, through the elements she has gathered, she unleashed everything held within: her alchemy and visions, her apparitions. She set aside her reservations and fears. The lines are flame, they are drops, they are wind, and they are sand. Laughter, tears, promises, and prayers.” —Yamid Amat Serna
“Viña writes like someone who has learned to live with a volcano inside: with fire and passion, with humor and tenderness, with memory and wounds, and with a calm that does not extinguish the eruption but rather transforms it into words. The Calm of the Volcano is an intimate, courageous, and deeply feminine book, written from nostalgia and the body, from that luminous and fierce intelligence that has always inhabited her, and from that truth that only emerges when someone dares to look at themselves head-on and turn their own fire into a poem.” —Yohir Akerman
“Eroticism runs a risk, I think, and that is that a thousand words might recount the same scene over and over again. And that doesn’t happen here because she is naked—not just of the flesh, but of the soul. And she writes, without shame, about her fragility. And how strong one must be to do this.” —Juan Mosquera
En La calma del volcán, el amor no correspondido no se olvida: se queda en el cuerpo. Late, arde, reaparece. A través de cuatro movimientos —tierra, aire, agua y fuego—, este libro recorre el ciclo emocional de un vínculo inconcluso con la intensidad de la naturaleza misma.
Aquí, la memoria no es solo recuerdo: es piel, es pulsión, es deseo que insiste. Con una voz contemporánea, honesta y profundamente sensorial, Viña Machado construye un viaje de autodescubrimiento donde perder al otro es también una forma de encontrarse. Un recorrido interno que estalla con la fuerza de un volcán que lleva años esperando activarse.
«En estas páginas, a través de sus elementos encontrados, liberó todo lo contenido: sus alquimias y visiones, sus apariciones. Levantó sus reservas y sus temores. Las líneas son llama, son gota, son viento y son arena. Risas, lágrimas, promesas y plegarias.» —Yamid Amat Serna
«Viña escribe como quien ha aprendido a vivir con un volcán adentro: con fuego y pasión, con humor y ternura, con memoria y heridas, y con una calma que no apaga la erupción, sino que la vuelve palabra. La calma del volcán es un libro íntimo, valiente y profundamente femenino, escrito desde el cuerpo y la nostalgia, desde esa inteligencia luminosa y feroz que siempre la ha habitado, y desde esa verdad que solo aparece cuando alguien se atreve a mirarse de frente y convertir su propio incendio en poema.» —Yohir Akerman
«Corre un riesgo el erotismo, pienso yo, y es que mil palabras cuenten la misma escena una y otra vez. Y eso no pasa aquí porque ella está desnuda, más que de la piel, del alma. Y escribe, sin pudor, sobre su fragilidad. Y qué fuerte hay que ser para esto.» —Juan Mosquera
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
An intimate and fierce collection of poems about desire, absence, and the mark left by what could not be.
In The Calm of the Volcano, unrequited love is not forgotten: it remains in the body. It beats, it burns, it reappears. Through four elements—earth, air, water, and fire—this book traces the emotional cycle of an unfulfilled bond with the intensity of nature itself.
Here, memory is not just a recollection: it is skin, it is impulse, it is an insistent desire. With a contemporary, honest, and deeply sensory voice, Viña Machado crafts a journey of self-discovery where losing the other is also a way of finding oneself. An inner journey that erupts with the force of a volcano that has been waiting years to erupt.
“In these pages, through the elements she has gathered, she unleashed everything held within: her alchemy and visions, her apparitions. She set aside her reservations and fears. The lines are flame, they are drops, they are wind, and they are sand. Laughter, tears, promises, and prayers.” —Yamid Amat Serna
“Viña writes like someone who has learned to live with a volcano inside: with fire and passion, with humor and tenderness, with memory and wounds, and with a calm that does not extinguish the eruption but rather transforms it into words. The Calm of the Volcano is an intimate, courageous, and deeply feminine book, written from nostalgia and the body, from that luminous and fierce intelligence that has always inhabited her, and from that truth that only emerges when someone dares to look at themselves head-on and turn their own fire into a poem.” —Yohir Akerman
“Eroticism runs a risk, I think, and that is that a thousand words might recount the same scene over and over again. And that doesn’t happen here because she is naked—not just of the flesh, but of the soul. And she writes, without shame, about her fragility. And how strong one must be to do this.” —Juan Mosquera
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