Inverse sky
Subtitle: poems
By: by John Isles.
Series: Kuhl House poets
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 61
ISBN-13: 9781587296864
Description: "Part Baudelairian flaneur, 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."--BOOK JACKET.