Angels & Saints

Angels & Saints
Eliot Weinberger, Mary Wellesley
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Hardback
h231 x 173mm - 160pg
1 Sep 2020 US
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9780811229869
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Angels have soared through Western culture and consciousness from Biblical to contemporary times. But what do we really know about these celestial beings? Where do they come from, what are they made of, how do they communicate and perceive? The celebrated essayist Eliot Weinberger has mined and deconstructed, resurrected and distilled centuries of theology into an awe-inspiring exploration of the heavenly host. ? ? ? ? ? ? From a litany of angelic voices, Weinberger' s lyrical meditation then turns to the earthly counterparts, the saints, their lives retold in a series of vibrant and playful capsule biographies, followed by a glimpse of the afterlife. ? ? ? ? ? ? Threaded throughout Angels and Saints are the glorious illuminated grid poems by the eighteenth-century Benedictine monk Hrabanus Maurus. These astonishingly complex, proto-? concrete? poems are untangled in a lucid afterword by the medieval scholar and historian Mary Wellesley.
"Weinberger delivers a meditation on the nature of angels and saints, illustrated with gorgeous reproductions of the works of ninth century German Benedictine monk Hrabanus Maurus. An interpretation of angels concludes with a beautifully laid out ' angelology,' naming various angels and their powers, such as Mach, who can make one invisible. The rest of the volume is devoted to the stories of saints-some of which are quite lengthy, such as the biography of Saint Therese. Others are as brief as a sentence. (For John the Almsgiver, ' He never spoke an idle word. ' ) Academic and lay readers interested in Christian thought will enjoy Weinberger' s eclectic homage to angels and saints. " -- Publishers Weekly (starred) "Like Thomas Aquinas before him, Weinberger is a brilliant scholar in a dark age. " -- Rain Taxi "My favorite essayist is Eliot Weinberger. His remarkable breadth of calm concern is impressive. " -- Gary Snyder - The New York Times "In Angels & Saints, the beauty of Weinberger' s prose is itself given a visual counterpoint in the multi-colored grid poems of ninth-century Benedictine monk Rabanus Maurus. Each of his sentences thrums with its own vitality. Each subject feels like it' s been granted a second life in text. " -- Scott Beauchamp - Washington Examiner "Eliot Weinberger is a master essayist, a furious thinker and an exceptionally elegant writer. " -- Jenny Diski
Eliot Weinberger is an essayist, editor, and translator. He lives in New York City. Dr. Mary Wellesley is a Research Affiliate at the British Library whose research focuses on medieval manuscripts. She writes and reviews widely, her work regularly appearing in the London Review of Books, Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, among other publications. Her book, Hidden Hands: Manuscripts That Made Us is forthcoming.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780811229869
Published: 1 Sep 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format: Hardback
Height: 231mm
Width: 173mm
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 480g
Pages: 160

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