Lovely, Raspberry: Poems

“Reading Aaron Belz is like dreaming of a summer vacation and then taking it.”—John Ashbery

In this masterfully offbeat second collection, Aaron Belz writes with a deadpan whimsy that fronts mischievously for keen cultural insights in poems like “You Bore Me,” “Asking Al Gore About the Muse,” and “Thirty Illegal Moves in the Cloud-Shape Game.”