02857nam 2200553Ia 450 991078256940332120230721003730.01-58729-727-2(CKB)1000000000575952(EBL)843133(OCoLC)646887542(SSID)ssj0000183249(PQKBManifestationID)11156639(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000183249(PQKBWorkID)10194606(PQKB)11260011(MiAaPQ)EBC843133(MdBmJHUP)muse8972(Au-PeEL)EBL843133(CaPaEBR)ebr10354419(EXLCZ)99100000000057595220080229d2008 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrInverse sky[electronic resource] poems /by John IslesIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20081 online resource (73 p.)Kuhl House poetsDescription based upon print version of record.1-58729-686-1 Contents; Acknowledgments; Part 1; Lighthouse; Putting the Bird Back in the Sky; Arcade; Song; Cinema Verité; Missing Persons; Mission Statement; My Comfortress of Unsuccess (Mary Austen); Course in Empire; Islarios; Flâneur; Nocturne; Cosmos; City of Our Making; Part 2; The Uncertainty Pastoral; Desperate Tender; Dark Pastoral; Send My Roots Rain; Notes toward a Social Realism; Sidereal Messengers; Gospel, According to This Very Moment; Part 3; The Arcadia Negotiations; Part 4; The Next Loneliness; I Know If I Find You I Will Have to Leave the Earth; For the World's Great EconomiesThe HungerNight Vision; Evangelical Economics; Diorama with a 20-Watt Bulb Inside; And When I Waked I Cried to Dream Again; The Eden Archives; Notes; Kuhl House PoetsPart Baudelairian flâneur, an Arcadian shepherd, the speaker in John Isles's brave new Inverse Sky encounters a fragmented history. It is nineteenth-century California, and the missions are still burning after the Americans establish the Bear Flag Republic; it is the twenty-first century, and the miners of 49 are relegated to a mural in an arcade. Both a loner and a lover, Isles's pilgrim-poet takes us on a journey where Native Americans are "missing persons" outside a diorama of their ancestors, then sets us adrift in settings ranging from film noir to the clear-cut hills of modern-day CalifoKuhl House poets.American poetry21st centuryCaliforniaPoetryAmerican poetry811/.6Isles John1499187MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782569403321Inverse sky3740286UNINA