
Inverse Sky.
Title:
Inverse Sky.
Author:
Isles, John.
ISBN:
9781587297274
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (73 pages)
Series:
Kuhl House Poets
Contents:
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 Economies -- The Hunger -- Night 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.
Abstract:
Part 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 California landscapes, under siege but not defeated.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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