{"product_id":"cloudwatcher-9798987585252","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Bazzett\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Echo Chamber\u003c\/i\u003e (Milkweed Editions, 2021)--as well as a verse translation of the creation epic of the Maya, \u003ci\u003eThe Popol Vuh\u003c\/i\u003e (Milkweed, 2018), named by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the best poetry books of 2018. His translation of the selected poems of Humberto Ak'abal, \u003ci\u003eIf Today Were Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Milkweed in 2024, and his chapbook, \u003ci\u003eThey: A Field Guide\u003c\/i\u003e, was the editors' choice for the Tomaz Salamun Prize (Factory Hollow, 2024). The recipient of National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in both poetry and translation, his poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Threepenny Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGRANTA\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe London Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Sun\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"American Poetry Review","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52160379683090,"sku":"9798987585252","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_489a715f-db70-4899-986e-832a06f6f3bd.jpg?v=1775056965","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cloudwatcher-9798987585252","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}