{"product_id":"book-jw02","title":"Ocean of Clouds","description":"\u003cb\u003eNAMED AN ESSENTIAL READ OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eTHE New Yorker • \u003c\/i\u003eIn his fourth book of poems, award-winning poet Garrett Hongo sees coastlines and waters, skylines and ancestral lines for what they inspire and teach.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a surpassingly beautiful collection of poems, with his characteristic long-lined, rolling music, Hongo is alert to the possibilities of individual moments of perception and grace in the landscapes of his life, whether waiting for a ferry in Balboa after a writing workshop (“An oil slick from a yacht … \/ Spread rainbows on the water, an aleph \/ curving toward us”) or hanging out and playing LPs with the late, great poet Michael Harper, or watching his daughter in the sun with a halo of messy twelve-year-old’s hair, or listening to the sea, which speaks to him in so many places: at the Wai‘ōpae Tidepools, at Cassis, at Divi Bay in Saint Martin, where, he tells us, “I thought of writing to the soul of Nâzim Hikmet, \/ saying loving a woman was like writing a book— \/ … it is love’s body on which you write a page of kisses …”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese poems of cloudy moons and sandstone cliffsides, the black glass of lava shattered into sands, waves surging, and stories of a poet’s gratitude for the journey he has made, come together to make a paean against forgetting.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49817373049136,"sku":"BDjw02","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/jw02-Square-cover.jpg?v=1778081466","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-jw02","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}