Thomas Merton and James Laughlin

Thomas Merton and James Laughlin
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393040692

Cloistered in a remote Kentucky monastery, Thomas Merton struggled as a young man to reconcile his preferred contemplative life and his public passion for writing. Here is the remarkable development of Thomas Merton monk, poet, and social critic as documented in nearly 30 years' of correspondence with his mentor and publisher, James Laughlin.

The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton

The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1975
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780811205702

"This is quintessential Merton."--The Catholic Review.

Selected Poems

Selected Poems
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-04-14
Genre: American poetry
ISBN: 9780811229920

Poet, Trappist monk, religious philosopher, translator, social critic: the late Thomas Merton was all these things. This classic selection from his great body of poetry affords a comprehensive view of his varied and progressively innovative work. Selected by Mark Van Doren and James Laughlin, this slim volume is now available again as a wonderful showcase of Thomas Merton's splendid poetry.

"Literchoor Is My Beat"

Author: Ian S. MacNiven
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 657
Release: 2014-11-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0374712433

A biography—thoughtful and playful—of the man who founded New Directions and transformed American publishing James Laughlin—poet, publisher, world-class skier—was the man behind some of the most daring, revolutionary works in verse and prose of the twentieth century. As the founder of New Directions, he published Ezra Pound's The Cantos and William Carlos Williams's Paterson; he brought Hermann Hesse and Jorge Luis Borges to an American audience. Throughout his life, this tall, charismatic intellectual, athlete, and entrepreneur preferred to stay hidden. But no longer—in "Literchoor Is My Beat": A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions, Ian S. MacNiven has given us a sensitive and revealing portrait of this visionary and the understory of the last century of American letters. Laughlin—or J, as MacNiven calls him—emerges as an impressive and complex figure: energetic, idealistic, and hardworking, but also plagued by doubts—not about his ability to identify and nurture talent but about his own worth as a writer. Haunted by his father's struggles with bipolar disorder, J threw himself into a flurry of activity, pulling together the first New Directions anthology before he'd graduated from Harvard and purchasing and managing a ski resort in Utah. MacNiven's portrait is comprehensive and vital, spiced with Ezra Pound's eccentric letters, J's romantic foibles, and anecdotes from a seat-of-your-pants era of publishing now gone by. A story about the struggle to publish only the best, it is itself an example of literary biography at its finest.

Poems, New and Selected

Poems, New and Selected
Author: James Laughlin
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 326
Release: 1998
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780811213752

In this collection of poems spanning a period of more than 60 years, James Laughlin reveals himself as a master of the well-placed word that penetrates the human heart. The collection of over 225 poems will be a sea of treasure for both new Laughlin readers and those already familiar with his talent.

The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton

The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 580
Release: 1985
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780811209311

Discusses Blake, Joyce, Pasternak, Faulkner, Styron, O'Connor, Camus, symbolism, creativity, alienation, contemplation, and freedom.

The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton

The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 1086
Release: 1977
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780811207690

"With the [publication of this book], an ever-wider audience may more fully appreciate the ... range of the poet's technique, the scope of his concerns, and the humaneness of his vision"--Back cover.

Raids on the Unspeakable

Raids on the Unspeakable
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1966
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780811201018

This paperbook collection of his prose writings reveals the extent to which Thomas Merton moved from the other-worldly devotion of his earlier work to a direct, deeply engaged, often militant concern with the critical situation of man in the world.

The Geography of Lograire

The Geography of Lograire
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1969
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780811200981

Thomas Merton's final testament as a poet is his most ambitious long work and a remarkable poetic achievement.