Looking Up: Poems from the National Cathedral Gargoyles (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781105903151)

From light verse and straightforward sonnets to strange soliloquies and songs, Looking Up gives voice to the stony figures that adorn Washington National Cathedral-the beasts, fiends, and sentinels that watch us as we pass unknowingly beneath them. Rooted in folklore and myth, medieval history, and the cathedral's restorative gardens and grounds, the 53 poems in this book awaken some of Washington's most enigmatic residents. Whether malevolent or benign, each creature offers its own solution to an old, beguiling riddle: "What do they want of us, those long-necked gargoyles who howl in the heights?"

Author: Jeff Sypeck
ISBN-10: 110590315X
ISBN-13: 9781105903151
Publisher: Lulu.com
Language: English
Published: 07/11/2012
Pages: 138
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d