If This Makes You NervousLyrical narrative poetry that responds to works of art. Elena Karina Byrnes 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 artists unique oeuvre. The poems are as political as they are personal, mapping out