{"product_id":"9781587297274","title":"Inverse Sky","description":"Part Baudelairian flâneur, an Arcadian shepherd, the speaker in John Isles’s brave new \u003ci\u003eInverse Sky\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e      \u003ci\u003eInverse Sky\u003c\/i\u003e evokes the paradigm of a shocked and disbelieving child dealing with a broken promise, yet the poems carry within themselves the knowledge that promises will be kept. The only response to broken promises is “to come undone \/ to come and go in a single breath.” But this is a beginning as well as an end. Each poem becomes a new world—for if there is anything on earth worth loving, it is something made with the world as it has been handed down to us. \u003ci\u003eInverse Sky\u003c\/i\u003e is an insistent effort to \"love the things not loving back.”\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Iowa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47167239028976,"sku":"9781587297274","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781587297274_p0.jpg?v=1763800229","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781587297274","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}