{"product_id":"secret-history-8","title":"Secret History","description":"In David Barber's third collection of poetry, the past makes its presence felt from first to last. Drawing on a wealth of eclectic sources and crafted in an array of nonce forms, these poems range across vast stretches of cultural and natural history in pursuit of the forsaken, long-gone, and unsung.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere is the stuff of lost time unearthed from all over: ballyhoo and murder ballad, the lacrimarium and the xylotheque, the Game of Robbers and the Indian Rope Trick, the obsolete o'o, the old-school word hoard, sunshowers and beaters and breaker boys. Here, to mark the twilight of print and type, are gleanings and borrowings from a mixed bag of throwback bound volumes: \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Moving Picture Book\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMandeville's Travels\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Bough\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFranklin Arithmetic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Millennial Laws of the Shakers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Conjuror's Confessions\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere too are guiding spirits whose like will not pass this way again: Cab Calloway at the Cotton Club; Henry Walter Bates in darkest Amazon; George Catlin among the Choctaw; Little Nemo in Slumberland; Yogi Berra in all his oracular glory. Reveling in vernacular lingo of every vintage even while brooding on dark ages without end, \u003ci\u003eSecret History\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles a world of long shadows and distant echoes that bears more than a passing resemblance to our own.","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55021858095448,"sku":"9780810141223","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780810141223.jpg?v=1777959940","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/secret-history-8","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}