Working With the Negatives Steven Storrie 9780997870626 Books
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Steven Storrie writes unadorned poems with subtle angles and a light touch, even as he rails against the sociopolitical currents dragging at his feet. Working With the Negatives offers us poems that capture experience in a way that privileges that experience as much as the poem.
Working With the Negatives Steven Storrie 9780997870626 Books
Though poems heavy with Pop references seem dated, other poems cut right to the chase through a beautiful economy of language. The poetic mixes freely with the prosaic: "Her mouth was closed and calm/A silent gun turret" (Nebraska Road); "You must go through the white heat of the furnace/To become porcelain" (Last Exit to Nowhere); "...weeks pile up/like dead bodies/Blank faced and unaccounted for" (Gouge Away). A subtle melody to the language pervades the best poems (I cannot quote in full here: fill in the blanks yourself) "The bar is dingy/ And the music doesn't fit/ it's all modern Pop s--t/And the guys in here/ Predate the ------- building." The negatives are almost all positives in this collection. Good stuff!Product details
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Working With the Negatives Steven Storrie 9780997870626 Books Reviews
Working With The Negatives, a book of poems, by Steven Storrie is a very good book. I read it in one sitting because I couldn't put it down. The poems are full of life, they are a celebration of the struggles of life, they are about adversity, about overcoming yourself to achieve your dreams. Some of the poems are political in nature, with an unusual slant on that world. Many of them are autobiographical. Steven lets us into his sharp, observant mind on many occasions. The poems in this book make me think. They make me think about the world that I live in, and they make me think of what it is like to live life as a poet. I think that you would really enjoy this book. It's cost is only seven dollars. The book is put on the market by the publishing company, Pski's Porch, who you can find at [...]
This first collection by Steven Storrie, and published by Pski’s porch, is brilliant.
What I love about the poems are the small details.
These are poems on family, Trump, Putin, Kayne West and there is even a Christmas themed poem.
Jenny, you’re Excused offers a fresh perspective on romance and The Garbage Truck is Coming is one of my favourites in the book. I often read this one over. It is a longer poem on workers and the daily grind.
The poems in this collection capture the bits in between. They are crisp and relevant. Each poem fits into Working With The Negatives and all are able to stand alone.
(I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review )
Steven Storrie's first collection of poetry, "Working with the Negatives" (Pski's Porch, 2016) is fifty-one pages of poetry that kept me flapping the pages. It was coincidence that my receipt sat on "Bush Era Tattoos," but a fitting one. I am continually fascinated by reflections on 9/11, perhaps as the previous generation was by the Kennedy assassination.
This, following the previous Republican era when “E.T. told us what really happened/To Christ” and followed by “Watching the UCLA Women’s Gymnast Team” to “wonder just when it was/Everything/got quite/So f***d up.”
But it’s not existentialism and politics--just mostly. There’s working the garbage tour day in, day out--the invisible essential nobody. There are mill workers, firefighters, strippers, all gouging away as “the weeks pile up/like dead bodies/Blank faced and unaccounted for,” from the final poem that ends “What I wouldn’t give/Just once/To be/King.”
The title plays on developing photographic negatives and the working with the negative aspects society inevitably throws our direction. Storrie, whose bio says he has worked as a cable TV repairman, dishwasher, choreographer, ice cream vendor, and junkyard attendant, could easily have been one of my housemates. The hints at his fatherhood and marriage (“Advice for my Unborn Son” and “Last Exit to Nowhere” in particular) suggest the complexity of the politics and existentialism, or perhaps I am just reading my own fatherhood and marriage into the existentialism and politics that I want to read between Storrie’s lines.
Nevertheless, there are poetry collections I appreciate, and poetry collections to which I will return. I take only minor issue with Storrie’s general lack of punctuation. Most often the poems do not suffer from the sparse use of punctuation, but occasionally I found myself distracted by the lack of commas and periods (though all poems end with periods) and the inconsistent capitalization at the beginning of lines.
The book’s layout is clean and clear, and the cover is a striking combination of black and white (negatives) collaged, with only a view of a Vladimir Lenin statue clearly recognizable. This is a great collection to leave casually lying around the workplace.
one of the best debut books of poetry I have read in a long time. The work is powerful, clear and punches you right in the gut. Steven is a writer of enormous talent and I enjoyed this book from first to last poem.
Though poems heavy with Pop references seem dated, other poems cut right to the chase through a beautiful economy of language. The poetic mixes freely with the prosaic "Her mouth was closed and calm/A silent gun turret" (Nebraska Road); "You must go through the white heat of the furnace/To become porcelain" (Last Exit to Nowhere); "...weeks pile up/like dead bodies/Blank faced and unaccounted for" (Gouge Away). A subtle melody to the language pervades the best poems (I cannot quote in full here fill in the blanks yourself) "The bar is dingy/ And the music doesn't fit/ it's all modern Pop s--t/And the guys in here/ Predate the ------- building." The negatives are almost all positives in this collection. Good stuff!
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