Soft Launch: Poems [Paperback]

InWith fluster, bluster, and, occasionally,mustard, Aaron Belz absurdly goes where many middle-aged white men have gonebefore, but probably never written poems about with such insight and pomp. Aaron Belz is the Comic of the Apocalypse. Were you expecting a Horseman? Getting ready to be repeatedly disabused. I would love to quote you a few lines from Aaron Belz' AaronBelz's poetry reminds us that poetry should be bright, friendly, surprising,and totally committed to everything but itself. Reading him is like dreaming ofa summer vacation and then taking it. Thereis room in this twittering world for some oddly resonant deadpan absurdity,especially when it's concise and readable&Youll want to put this book down,but you probably wont. Belz embraces narrative, brevity, down-to-earthdiction, and slapstick. His approach resembles the New York Schools lighterside, where Ashberys use of Popeye in a poem evokes pop art and OHarasconversational tone disarms the reader to open him up for heavier material thatfollows