• 1918 Gargoyles... And Other Poems by Howard Mumford Jones
  • 1918 Gargoyles... And Other Poems by Howard Mumford Jones
  • 1918 Gargoyles... And Other Poems by Howard Mumford Jones

1918 Gargoyles... And Other Poems by Howard Mumford Jones

They leer! They leer! These verses of stone—these chants hewn from the crumbling flanks of forgotten cathedrals! O vile architect of ink and blasphemy, what sacrilegious muse hath whispered into your ear these cold incantations?

In Gargoyles and Other Poems, the reader is not so much invited as abducted—dragged by bony hand into a narrow crypt of intellect, wherein the poet Jones broods like a mad sexton whispering rhymes to dust. Each poem a window sealed with mortar and soot; each stanza a gargoyle gnashing its teeth against heaven itself.

This is no collection of poems—it is a necropolis of thought

 

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