{"product_id":"9798987585252","title":"Cloudwatcher","description":"\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\u003cbr\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 can \"wipe the name clean off a mountain.\" Bazzett is a master at building a world slightly parallel to this one, a place of weirdness and mystery, where to be imprisoned in a \"cage of one's own desires\" comes replete with cedar shavings, feeding tray, and water bottle. With its evocative imagery and languagecrackling with energy, Cloudwatcher 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.\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Stern Prize is an exciting new partnership from \u003ci\u003eThe American Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e and Copper Canyon Press that addressees 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. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Michael Bazzett","offers":[{"title":"Copper Canyon Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2026-04-17","offer_id":47353573769471,"sku":"9798987585252","price":26.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a1649000-dc70-4ba5-8250-4e6660ce2475.jpg?v=1760540870","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9798987585252","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}