“Belz is ridiculous. He is self-proclaiming like the kid playing pretend who keeps forgetting his alter ego and making up a new one. His poetry takes on the tone of something preposterously purposeful. The reader is well aware that he is highly unqualified to say the important things he says.”
—The Bagpipe
“Aaron Belz is out to get you. Get you thinking, get you laughing, get you good. The poems in his first full-fledged collection, The Bird Hoverer, will get to you, too. In other words, they’re smart and funny, and also big-hearted.”
—Jacket Magazine
“Belz’s conversational poetry is alive; it’s a living, breathing entity, pulsing with pop culture life. Violet Affleck gets a shout-out in ‘For Ben Affleck’s Daughter,’ and the poet himself has a very sexy tête-à-tête while watching Cheers with Meryl Streep in the poem ‘In Bed With Meryl Streep.’”
—University News
Please do us all a favor and order it from Amazon. Why wait? Seriously, why?
Or if you’re in St. Louis, buy it from Left Bank Books in the Central West End.
