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Self-Portrait on Convex Mirror. On Autoría by Julieta Valero

In the quotation chosen by Julieta Valero to conclude Autoría [Authorship], Miguel Casado points out that “the continuous thread of the voice has provided the subject with the only possible space for existence”. “Once concluded,” he had previously written “it all falls apart again”. Anyone who chooses to interpret Autoría in a linear way, without taking chance or omission into account, will wonder whether Valero wove the “only space for existence” for her discourse, or whether her voice can be heard, hesitantly, at ground level and ironic at times, rough and twisted at others: “at present, The Sublime is a membrane between words and the multiplicity of the bazaar”, suggests Valero in Ashberiana, a dialectic she establishes with a poetics of the writer and philosopher Alberto Santamaría, which we could perhaps see as the nucleus of Autoría, as well as, undoubtedly, a major footnote in the literary choice of Julieta Valero, not just because of the explicit reference to the North American poet (“all so Ashbery now”, she humorously, and accurately, pointed out in that text).