This collection of short fiction and poetry fixates on all phases of love: new, maintained, lost, and found.
Just finished Self Inflicted Heart Shaped Wounds. I'm speechless, and if I had been using a real highlighter on real pages (rather than reading this on my Kindle app) I would have run out of ink.
Steve's writing gets right to the heart of things, and I like writers (and people in general) who can do that with brutal honesty and grace. This work reminds me of a line from Jerry McGuire -- "The Things We Think But Do Not Say."
I can't recommend this collection highly enough. Thank you, Steve, for writing the things we think but don't often (or ever) say.
Excerpt
"With arms around your sweater
and chin atop your head,
I had one eye closed to the future and
the other looking towards a
street corner phone booth confessional
while trying desperately
to force myself to forget that
eventually I will miss you forever."
Professional Reviews
and I like writers (and people in general) who can do that ...
Just finished Self Inflicted Heart Shaped Wounds. I'm speechless, and if I had been using a real highlighter on real pages (rather than reading this on my Kindle app) I would have run out of ink. Steve's writing gets right to the heart of things, and I like writers (and people in general) who can do that with brutal honesty and grace. This work reminds me of a line from Jerry McGuire -- "The Things We Think But Do Not Say."
I can't recommend this collection highly enough. Thank you, Steve, for writing the things we think but don't often (or ever) say.
Awesome Read
This is an incredible read...author has a way of building a scene and I feel like I am there! Looking forward to your next book, Mr. Harz!
Loved it!!
Wow, great read, Steven Harz! Emotionally charged. Takes you back to times and memories we've all had and can identify with. So vivid, you can picture the setting clearly in your mind. Simpler times, while passionately bittersweet. I loved this series!
If you tend to believe romantic, passionate, masculine poetry is a thing of past eras, read "She Intrigues Me," and be swept away in the beautiful craft of a contemporary poet of love.
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
