{"product_id":"9781848614406","title":"Beneath","description":"Simon Perril's new collection is the twin to his Archilochus on the Moon, and continues his exploration of the tangled roots of ancient Greek lyric. A nekyia is an underworld story preserving a rite from classical antiquity wherein the living call up the dead, and are questioned about the future. Neobulé was the bride-to-be of the first lyric poet, Archilochus-until her father inexplicably called it off and incurred the most infamous poetic wrath in literary history. The soldier-poet's scurrilous response shamed the entire family into committing suicide. \"Beneath\" tracks Neobulé's arrival in Hades; and voices her gradual understanding of shadehood. She may be \"a chorus of gasps \/ no lyre can pluck\", but can still recall being \"more shade above \/ in the mud-brick groves \/ of kitchens\".","brand":"Shearsman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064530288880,"sku":"9781848614406","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781848614406_p0.jpg?v=1763751209","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781848614406","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}