{"product_id":"soft-launch-aaron-belz-9780892555024","title":"Soft Launch: Poems","description":"In \u003cem\u003eSoft Launch\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eoverconnectedness\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aaron Belz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0892555025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780892555024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Persea Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.40w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/16\/2019","brand":"Aaron Belz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926788931839,"sku":"9780892555024","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_1125a616-334c-4a33-b54d-1c3714f54722.jpg?v=1681085017","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/soft-launch-aaron-belz-9780892555024","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}