Thomas Merton<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\nThis is fantastic news. The Sign of Jonas, Raids on the Unspeakable, New Seeds of Contemplation<\/em>\u2026 Merton\u2019s meditative works have become some of my favorite reading over the last few years. Who knew that, so many years since his death, we\u2019d suddenly get a whole new volume of his poems.<\/p>\nGod bless Kathleen Norris.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of my favorite writers, Kathleen Norris (Amazing Grace, The Cloister Walk, Dakota), has just completed the preparation of a volume of 119 unreleased poems by another of my favorite writers \u2026 Thomas Merton. This is fantastic news. The Sign of Jonas, Raids on the Unspeakable, New Seeds of Contemplation\u2026 Merton\u2019s meditative works have become […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1051,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[182,380],"class_list":["post-11762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-kathleen-norris","tag-thomas-merton"],"yoast_head":"\n
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