From a litany of angelic voices, Weinbergers 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 & 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.