Kindle Edition Amazon Category:  Poetry Publisher: Book Baby Pages: 46 Copyright: December 25, 2012 ISBN-13: 9781624887291 "Songs you can't dance to" is a collection of poetry and short fiction by Steven Harz. A mixture of equal parts of love and grief, "Songs you can't dance to" contains poems that center on the anticipation and joy of new and maintained love as well as the sorrow and pain of longing and loss. Additionally, the volume includes eight works of short fiction that range in theme from high school love to the unending echo of a national tragedy.  With "Songs you can't dance to" Steven Harz begins to explore the key components of the human experience.

Poetry: Reflective Love and Pain
Harz captures the exhilaration, pain and frustration of love all the while making you strive to find the perfect balance. The feel good ones like "Red", "Context", "Order", "Written History" and of course, "Songs You Can't Dance to" bring an urge to find the one we love and let them know NOW! While others such as "While", "Two Senses", "I Can Never", "Unknown Battle", "Silent Roar", "Chronicle" and "Disease" pierce your heart with memories of love gone bad or an undying commitment to not let it happen to you - pain, truth and appreciation pour out of these works. And then there is "Momentary Atheist" - Hot Damn! - passion and throwing all caution to the wind! "My Hands" and "Hallowed Ground" remind us of what should be most important in our chaotic world and "Torturous" keeps it all realistic - understanding that love aint easy and sometimes a burden.

I thoroughly enjoyed these honest, heartfelt and "reflectionary" poems of love - some may be good for Valentines Day but most may help us reflect on our own love, lack of love or search for love and no Hallmark card can ever fit that bill. Keep it going Steven Harz - we all need to stop and reflect on the importance of love and the never ending exploration for it!

Captivating! Must read!
LOVE this. Started to read it, couldn't put it down....and have gone back to read it again. Completely captivated. Such powerful feelings behind this writing. I feel like I am looking not Steve's open heart and somehow invading his privacy. So much heart and soul....deep emotion. Reminders of memories lost. Thanks Steve, this is really beautiful and I'm left wanting more!

There are certain songs we all dance to
There is comfort in reading Songs You Can't Dance To. I challenge anyone to read this gem and not connect to Steve's work. You will soon find yourself reflecting back to your own life, whether its a fond memory of your childhood or a flash from a not so distant past. Reading many of Steve's work brought back joyful recall of such beautiful times in my life. It is also a true reminder of how much we all should attempt to fully enjoy love and the ones we love now.