A Thomas Merton Reader Author:Thomas Merton, Thomas P. McDonnell (Editor) This edition brings us Thomas Merton is all his aspects: spiritual writer, poet, peacemaker, man among men, servant of God -- a one-volume synopsis of his quest for truth, drawn not only from his major works but from his lesser-known writings as well. — The unreal city. Prisoner's base -- — Passage -- — Poems. Landscape: beast -- — Song: from Cr... more »ossportion's pastoral --
Lent in a year of war --
The flight into Egypt --
The night train --
Aubade: Lake Erie --
An elegy for Ernest Hemingway --
Elegy for James Thurber --
Advice to a young prophet --
Children in the market place. The new society --
Friends and comrades --
Columbia --
Hell as hatred --
In the face of death --
Reviews of Nabokov and Ransom. Laughter in the dark --
The world's body --
Our Lady of Cobre --
Epilogue --
Magnetic north. With a great price. Doubt and asceticism --