LEADER 02857nam 2200553Ia 450 001 9910782569403321 005 20230721003730.0 010 $a1-58729-727-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000575952 035 $a(EBL)843133 035 $a(OCoLC)646887542 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000183249 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11156639 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000183249 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10194606 035 $a(PQKB)11260011 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC843133 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8972 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL843133 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10354419 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000575952 100 $a20080229d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aInverse sky$b[electronic resource] $epoems /$fby John Isles 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (73 p.) 225 1 $aKuhl House poets 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-58729-686-1 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; Part 1; Lighthouse; Putting the Bird Back in the Sky; Arcade; Song; Cinema Verite?; Missing Persons; Mission Statement; My Comfortress of Unsuccess (Mary Austen); Course in Empire; Islarios; Fla?neur; 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 Economies 327 $aThe 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 Poets 330 $aPart Baudelairian fla?neur, an Arcadian shepherd, the speaker in John Isles's brave new Inverse Sky encounters a fragmented history. It is nineteenth-century California, and the missions are still burning after the Americans establish the Bear Flag Republic; it is the twenty-first century, and the miners of 49 are relegated to a mural in an arcade. Both a loner and a lover, Isles's pilgrim-poet takes us on a journey where Native Americans are "missing persons" outside a diorama of their ancestors, then sets us adrift in settings ranging from film noir to the clear-cut hills of modern-day Califo 410 0$aKuhl House poets. 606 $aAmerican poetry$y21st century 607 $aCalifornia$vPoetry 615 0$aAmerican poetry 676 $a811/.6 700 $aIsles$b John$01499187 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782569403321 996 $aInverse sky$93740286 997 $aUNINA