{"product_id":"angels-saints-eliot-weinberger-9780811229869","title":"Angels \u0026 Saints","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e Threaded throughout \u003cem\u003eAngels \u0026amp; Saints\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eliot Weinberger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811229866\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811229869\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.70w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/15\/2020","brand":"Eliot Weinberger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44043017289983,"sku":"9780811229869","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7c154d07-afce-463c-887e-0ba7d5da32f5.jpg?v=1684964809","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/angels-saints-eliot-weinberger-9780811229869","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}