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Article: The Journals of Thomas Merton.(Review)
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- September 12, 1997
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The Journals of Thomas Merton Volumes 1-5 Edited by Patrick Hart, Jonathan Montaldo, Lawrence S. Cunningham, Vincent A. Kramer, and Robert E. Daggy HarperSan Francisco, $15 (pbk.), $30 (cloth)
Writing to Thomas Merton in 1960, the poet Czeslaw Milosz reflected that we moderns "lack an image of the world ordered by religion." Merton first wrote to Milosz in 1958, and they corresponded until Merton's sudden death a decade later. In their letters, at once generous and scrupulous, Milosz makes exacting demands of Merton and does not hold back from trying to provoke him: He writes, for example, that he has not yet read Merton's The Wisdom of the Desert (1960), ...