March 21, 2007
The Bird Hoverer
I am pleased as punch to announce that Aaron Belz's new book, The Bird Hoverer, is officially OUT and available through the BlazeVox books site (and if you wait a fortnight, at Left Bank books). I saw Aaron last weekend at the Observable St. Pat's reading at the Royale, where he presented me with my own shiny (it is shiny!) copy of the book, whose cover bears an intensely colorful and beautiful painting by Conrad Bakker. Baker painted a painting of a book cover, if that makes sense - that is, the title and Aaron's name are painted, rather than typeset in a True Type font. The book is broken into two sections, "Among Birds" and "The Names of the Lost." If you've ever heard Aaron read "2005 is a Good Year for Alec Baldwin," and thought, "damn, I wish I had a copy of that poem," now you can have a copy of that poem. And many, many others of the same caliber.