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The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton
Contributor(s): Merton, Thomas (Author)

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 ISBN: 0811207692     ISBN-13: 9780811207690
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
OUR PRICE: $47.45  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 1977
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Inspirational & Religious
Dewey: 811.54
LCCN: 00000000
Lexile Measure: 1200(Not Available)
Series: New Directions Paperbook
Physical Information: 1.93" H x 6.03" W x 8.97" L (3.06 lbs) 1058 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
Features: Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
 
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Publisher Description:
In 1944, New Directions brought out Thomas Merton's first book of verse. By the time of his tragic, untimely death in 1968, Father Louis (as he was known at the Trappist monastery where he lived for twenty-seven years) had published upwards of fifty books and pamphlets, including several more collections of poetry. All of these poems have been assembled in a single, definitive volume (first published by New Directions in 1977) which includes much additional unpublished or uncollected material drawn from the archive of the Merton Studies Center at Bellarmine College in Louisville, Kentucky, or supplied by the poet's friends and associates. Brought together in The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton are: Early Poems (1940-42, published posthumously in 1971), Thirty Poems (1944), A Man in the Divided Sea (1946), Figures for an Apocalypse (1947), The Tear of the Blind Lions (1949), The Strange Islands (1957), Original Child Bomb (1962), Emblems of a Season of Fun (1963), Cables to Ace (1968), and The Geography of Lograire (completed in 1968 and published posthumously). These are followed by Sensation Time at the Home and Other New Poems, a book which Merton completed shortly before his death. There are also sections of uncollected poems, humorous verse, poems written in French, with some English translations, Merton's translations of poetry from various languages, drafts and fragments, and a selection of concrete poems. With the availability of The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton as a New Directions paperbook, an ever wider audience may more fully appreciate the impressive range of the poet's technique, the scope of his concerns, and the humaneness of his vision.

Contributor Bio(s): Merton, Thomas: - Thomas Merton (1915-1968) entered the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, following his conversion to Catholicism and was ordained Father M. Louis in 1949. During the 1960s, he was increasingly drawn into a dialogue between Eastern and Western religions and domestic issues of war and racism. In 1968, the Dalai Lama praised Merton for having a more profound knowledge of Buddhism than any other Christian he had known. Thomas Merton is the author of the beloved classic The Seven Storey Mountain.
 
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