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Included is a devoted, even loving, appreciation of merton s poems by poet mark van doren i dont know if its found in the collected poems. Sweet brother if i do not sleepmy eyes are flowers for your tomband if i cannot eat my bread. The definitive and authorized biography is that of michael mott, the seven mountains of thomas merton spck. Thoughtful and eloquent, as timely or timeless now as when it was originally published in 1956, thoughts in solitude addresses the pleasure of a solitary li. Thomas merton thomas merton 19151968 was born in france and. A thomas merton reader provides a complete view of merton, in all his aspects. For my brother missing in action 1943 by thomas merton.
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