Soft Launch: Poems
Aaron Belz
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Description
In Soft Launch, Aaron Belz takes what might seem normal to other people--a 1/3 full bottle of Prell left in a musty shower stall of a mountain cabin, for instance--and turns it over in the light until its true self emerges, a thirsty dolphin lost in the piney woods. Or so he claims. Regardless, in these poems, the sentimentalized experience of middle-age is about not just connectedness but overconnectedness, and to all the wrong things. Hyperaware, hypervigilant, and abundantly alert, Belz surveys the banal, the grinding quotidian, and asks not, "Is this all?" but rather "Isn't this not all?" And then he bows his head either to pray or to nap.
Product Details
Price
$15.95
$14.83
Publisher
Persea Books
Publish Date
September 17, 2019
Pages
96
Dimensions
5.4 X 0.4 X 7.9 inches | 0.25 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780892555024
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About the Author
Aaron Belz is the author of four book of poetry, including Glitter Bomb and Lovely, Raspberry. He currently lives in Savanah, Georgia
Reviews
Aaron Belz's poetry reminds us that poetry should be bright, friendly, surprising, and totally committed to everything but itself. Reading him is like dreaming of a summer vacation and then taking it.--John Ashbery
There is room in this twittering world for some oddly resonant deadpan absurdity, especially when it's concise and readable...You'll want to put this book down, but you probably won't.
Belz embraces narrative, brevity, down-to-earth diction, and slapstick. His approach resembles the New York School's lighter side, where Ashbery's use of Popeye in a poem evokes pop art and O'Hara's conversational tone disarms the reader to open him up for heavier material that follows--Jason Labbe
Aaron Belz is the Comic of the Apocalypse. Were you expecting a Horseman? Getting ready to be repeatedly disabused.--Rae Armantrout
There is room in this twittering world for some oddly resonant deadpan absurdity, especially when it's concise and readable...You'll want to put this book down, but you probably won't.
Belz embraces narrative, brevity, down-to-earth diction, and slapstick. His approach resembles the New York School's lighter side, where Ashbery's use of Popeye in a poem evokes pop art and O'Hara's conversational tone disarms the reader to open him up for heavier material that follows--Jason Labbe
Aaron Belz is the Comic of the Apocalypse. Were you expecting a Horseman? Getting ready to be repeatedly disabused.--Rae Armantrout
