This second poetry collection by Mark Anthony Cayanan is the extension/culmination of Shall We Be Kind and Suffer Each Other, a rather shorter book that’s tight in lyricism and loose in emotions. From the I in Narcissus, Cayanan moves to You, who submerges the speaker in an unnerving tide of desire and judgment. If the title of the collection from which some of the poems here have appeared is an invitation/suggestion, the title of this book is the response.