In Soft Launch, 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 overconnectedness, and to all the wrong things. Hyperaware,...