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Cloudwatcher / Michael Bazzett.
Van Pelt Library PS3602.A999 C568 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bazzett, Michael, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fire lookout stations--California--History.
- Fire lookout stations.
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Nature--Poetry.
- Nature.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- x, 68 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Cloud watcher
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : American Poetry Review, [2025]
- Summary:
- "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. These 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."" -- From the publisher's website.
- Contents:
- Animal
- Autobiography of a poet
- Every onion of perfect minaret
- Tongues
- The fever
- On average
- The revisionist
- Transitory
- The tycoon
- Time blindness
- The wind and rain lashed down
- When a coffin
- Letter from the sea
- The sea was dark as polished stone
- The man on the roadside
- Foundational myth
- Hearth
- The man kept reaching
- The missing river
- The search party
- The river left
- The taxidermist & the cloud
- Time
- The rememberer
- To write a poem about a river
- In the foothills of the headwaters,
- The night was clear
- The monument
- The pair of us
- The side of the road
- The favor
- The poetry reading
- During the interview,
- It's about time
- Kalsarikänni
- The other day
- There is the endlessness
- They say
- The book of clouds
- Why I'm not a clock
- Yes, and
- Today
- The extra, the ordinary
- When the gods come rushing
- I would like to describe
- Let's walk the fields.
- Notes:
- Winner of the Stern Prize, 2025
- ISBN:
- 9798987585252
- OCLC:
- 1499138736
- Publisher Number:
- 90104032102
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