{"product_id":"if-this-makes-you-nervous-elena-karina-byrne-9781632430953","title":"If This Makes You Nervous","description":"\u003cb\u003eLyrical narrative poetry that responds to works of art.\u003c\/b\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elena Karina Byrne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1632430959\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781632430953\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Omnidawn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.83w x 0.32d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2021 pg. 90","brand":"Elena Karina Byrne","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44045889241343,"sku":"9781632430953","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b2cc5182-f183-4098-aa14-3e73a41f9b32.jpg?v=1684981367","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/if-this-makes-you-nervous-elena-karina-byrne-9781632430953","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}