{"product_id":"cloudwatcher","title":"Cloudwatcher","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the inaugural 2025 Stern Prize from \u003ci\u003eThe American Poetry Review, \u003c\/i\u003e Michael Bazzett's astonishing \u003ci\u003eCloudwatcher\u003c\/i\u003e is laced with wit and buoyed by a welcome eccentricity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCloudwatcher, \u003c\/i\u003e Michael Bazzett's poems reside in an otherwhere of missing rivers and bottled starlight, where the sea leaves cryptic letters for beachcombers on shore, where rain \"wipe[s] the name clean off the mountain.\" Bazzett is a master at building a world slightly parallel to this one, a place of weirdness and mystery where a \"cage of [one's] own desires\" comes replete with cedar shavings, feed tray, and water bottle. With its evocative imagery and language crackling with energy, \u003ci\u003eCloudwatcher\u003c\/i\u003e brings us to a place where the eternal rubs shoulders with the everyday, leaving us with a heightened sense of how absurd and wondrous it is to inhabit a temporary body in this world, and the life-affirming reminder that \"until \/ you crack a bit, you can't be over-joyed.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Stern Prize is an exciting new partnership from \u003ci\u003eThe American Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e and Copper Canyon Press that addresses an often-overlooked category in book prizes: poets 50 years of age or older who are contributing innovative and dynamic works to the publishing landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Bazzett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47604865990892,"sku":"9798987585252","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9798987585252.jpg?v=1778113552","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/cloudwatcher","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}