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David Barber Secret History (Paperback). 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. Further DetailsTitle: Secret History Condition: New 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.Here 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: The Magic Moving Picture Book , Mandeville's Travels , The Golden Bough , Franklin Arithmetic , The Millennial Laws of the Shakers , A Conjuror's Confessions .Here 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, Secret History chronicles a world of long shadows and distant echoes that bears more than a passing resemblance to our own. Author: David Barber EAN: 9780810141223 Format: Paperback Country/Region of Manufacture: US ISBN: 9780810141223 Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Item Weight: 180g Language: English Genre: Poetry & Drama Item Width: 10mm Publisher: Northwestern University Press Release Date: 12/15/2019 Subtitle: Poems Release Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
