Elena Karina Byrne's chapbook, NO, DON'T, offers a restless portrait of identity that reflects the shifting terrains of desire and gender, of personal loss and punishing empowerment, and of political and cultural abuse. Under the influence of language's "steeplechase hours," this book's "carnal ambition" becomes a cinematic crash between fate and will as reality marries wild imagination. Each inventive poem turns perception into action and feeling into a musical art of attention as the poet travels between the past and the present, between conscious and unconscious thinking in order

to tell a powerful story.

Author: Elena Karina Byrne
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: What Books Press
Published: 11/01/2020
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.14d
ISBN: 9781733378987

About the Author
Byrne, Elena Karina: - ELENA KARINA BRYNE is the author of four books including If This Makes You Nervous (Omnidawn Publishing, 2021). She also has a completed collection of Interrupted Essays: Voyeur Hour: Poetry, Art, Film, & Desire. Elena is a freelance lecturer, editor, Poetry Consultant & Moderator for The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, and the Literary Programs Director for The Ruskin Art Club. A Pushcart Prize recipient, her publications include Best American Poetry, Poetry, The Paris Review, The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, BOMB, Verse Daily, Poetry International, The Kyoto Journal, New American Writing, and Narrative, among others.