{"product_id":"if-this-makes-you-nervous-paperback","title":"If This Makes You Nervous - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElena Karina Byrne\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLyrical narrative poetry that responds to works of art.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Elena Karina Byrne's fourth collection of poems offers what she describes as an homage to her art-immersed upbringing with poems that challenge perception as they create a dialogue between the speaker and sixty-six artists. Lyrical narratives unfold with psychological urgency and candor as they re-encounter each artist's unique oeuvre. The poems are as political as they are personal, mapping out the author's emotional, spatial, and gender orientations within the confines of our visual culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Longing and loss prevail in \u003ci\u003eIf This Makes You Nervous\u003c\/i\u003e, always leading the reader on winding paths that return to the bodily while balancing beauty and terror and what is seen and what remains invisible. \u003ci\u003eIf This Makes You Nervous\u003c\/i\u003e is a devotional look at shifting identity that begins in a preteen's memory, moves through history's collective body, and ends with what is \"connected and accounted for\" in the imagination's relativistic measure of time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElena Karina Byrne\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four poetry collections and a chapbook. A Pushcart Prize recipient, her work has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVolt\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Poetry International\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNarrative\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDenver Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePlume\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Former regional director of the Poetry Society of America, Byrne is an editor, lecturer, poetry consultant, moderator for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Festival of Books, and the literary programs director for the historic Ruskin Art Club. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.32 x 8.9 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 02, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42735399927871,"sku":"9781632430953","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/c1ccbc636fd0a34f1e35bf25b946f285.webp?v=1765143324","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/if-this-makes-you-nervous-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}