Cloud Seeding
Stacy Coyle
Winner, Western Heritage Award, National Cowboy Museum
2004 Spur Finalist,
Outstanding Poetry Book
With eloquent and exact language, Stacy Coyle captures the complexities of
a 
landscape both powerful and forgiving.
Here she casts her poet’s eye on inhabitants of the American West: moose, horses, elk, coyotes, and humans; on a spring tooth harrow and an Aermotor windmill; on seldom heard from places like Ramona, Kansas, and Albin, Wyoming; on things as hard to see as an American marten and Montana’s smallest fish.
She writes of the ever-changing weather: the ice cycle, a break in the storm, and cloud seeding. She takes metaphoric pathways to explore the poor farm, the Antlers Bar, dry ponds, cedar ridges, and Mike’s Game and Taxidermy.
You’ll find this an unsentimental and honest look at the West, articulated
with a care and wisdom not often found.
“Stacy Coyle is a fine poet who has a painter’s
eye, a storyteller’s
interest in Western people and their relationship with land, nature, and culture
of the region, and an ecologist’s understanding of the unity of all forms
of life. Much of her poetry in Cloud Seeding deals with Wyoming’s past
or present and, like all of her work in the book, does so in strikingly fresh
and thoughtful ways.”
•• Robert
Roripaugh, Wyoming Poet Laureate, 1995–2002
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