THE MERTON ANNUAL

The ITMS and the Thomas Merton Center support publication of The Merton Annual: Studies in Culture, Spirituality and Social Concerns. The Merton Annual publishes articles about Thomas Merton and about related matters of major concern to his life and work. Its purpose is to enhance Merton’s reputation as a writer and monk, to continue to develop his message for our times, and to provide a regular outlet for substantial Merton-related scholarship. The Merton Annual includes as regular features reviews, review-essays, a bibliographic survey, interviews, and first appearances of unpublished, or obscurely published, Merton materials, photographs and art. Essays about related literary and spiritual matters will also be considered. Manuscripts and books for review may be sent to either of the editors.

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• David Joseph Belcastro. “Introduction: Angular Clouds of Unknowing.” 5-10.

• Michael W. Higgins. “The Priestly Imagination: Thomas Merton and the Poetics of Critique.” 11-23.

• Lynn Szabo. “‘In the Dark Before Dawn’: Thomas Merton’s Mystical Poetics.” 24-40.

• Ross Labrie. “Wholeness in Thomas Merton’s Poetry.” 41-60.

• Patrick F. O'Connell. “Islands in the Stream: Thomas Merton’s Poetry of the Early 1950s.” 61-105.

• Bonnie Thurston. “‘A Ray of That Truth Which Enlightens All’: Thomas Merton, Poetic Language and Inter-Religious Dialogue.” 106-119.

• Jeffrey Bilbro. “From Violence to Silence: The Rhetorical Means and Ends of Thomas Merton’s Antipoetry.” 120-149.

• Małgorzata Poks. “The Geography of Lograire as Merton’s Gestus – Prolegomena.” 150-169.

• Deborah Kehoe. “Thomas Merton’s Ecopoetry: Bearing Witness to the Unity of Creation.” 170-188.

• Susan McCaslin. “Pivoting Toward Peace: The Engaged Poetics of Thomas Merton and Denise Levertov.” 189-203.

• Lynn Szabo. “Shadows and Pathways: Four Unpublished Poems by Thomas Merton.” 204-209.

• Thomas Merton. “Four Unpublished Poems.” 210-219.

• Paul Wilkes. “Interview with Lawrence Ferlinghetti.” Conducted by Paul Wilkes and edited by Gray Matthews. 220-226.

• Gray Matthews. “Bibliographic Review: The Mystic’s Hope: Thomas Merton’s Contemplative Message to a Distracted World.” 227-260.

• Gray Matthews. Rev. of An Introduction to Christian Mysticism, Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 3 by Thomas Merton, edited with an introduction by Patrick F. O’Connell.  261-265.

• John King. Rev. of More Than Silence: A Bibliography of Thomas Merton by Patricia A. Burton. 265-269.

• Gray Matthews. Rev. of Seeds of Hope: Thomas Merton’s Contemplative Message/Semillas de Esperanza: El Mensaje Contemplativo de Thomas Merton edited by Fernando Beltrán Llavador and Paul M. Pearson. 270-273.

• Daniel P. Horan, OFM. Rev. of Living with Wisdom: A Life of Thomas Merton by Jim Forest. [Revised Edition]  273-276.

• Patrick F. O'Connell. Rev. of Mystics by William Harmless, SJ. 276-280.

• Patrick Minderman. Rev. of The Spiritual Landscape of Mark by Bonnie B. Thurston. 280-283.