Putting the Bird Back in the Sky
by John Isles • from Inverse Sky • University of Iowa Press
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John IslesJohn Isles is the author of Ark and coeditor of the Baltics section of New European Poets. He received an award from The Los Angeles Review in 2004 and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2005.
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Inverse Sky"I’ve long considered John Isles one of the most exciting of the emerging generation of American poets; these poems bear that out." (Kevin Prufer)
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