{"product_id":"secret-history-9780810141223","title":"Secret History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarber approaches the scrap heap of common discourse as a connoisseur ready to celebrate the vitality of lexicons and vocabularies so encased in custom and context that everyone else has mistaken them (and by implication the aspects of our lives that they evoke) for dead.\" —Langdon Hammer, poetry editor for \u003ci\u003eThe American Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083660697943,"sku":"9780810141223","price":12.71,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780810141223.jpg?v=1725549633","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/secret-history-9780810141223","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}