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Cloudwatcher

Cloudwatcher

Bazzett, Michael

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN13: 9798987585252
Publisher: American Poetry Review
Published: Apr 7 2026
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.66
Language: English

Winner of the inaugural 2025 Stern Prize from The American Poetry Review, Michael Bazzett's astonishing Cloudwatcher is laced with wit and buoyed by a welcome eccentricity.


In Cloudwatcher, 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, 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.

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