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Record Number 2343
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1936
Title The Chaste
Journal The Columbia jester Magazine
Volume Volume 26
Notes Soft cover; this item also contains 2 drawing by Merton (pages 9 and 12), a drawing by Ad Reinhardt (page 3), and an article by Robert Lax "Summer" (page 15). Note: drawings by Merton contained in the Jester magazine are not mentioned in Dell'Isola.
Label NUP1
Date January Short Title: The Chaste
Pages Pages 18 and 22
Record Number 2344
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1938
Title Drawing
Journal The Columbia Jester Magazine
Volume Volume 38
Notes Soft cover; this item also contains 3 articles by Merton's friend Robert Lax titled "Worlds Fair" (pg 18), "Sarter Resartus" (pg 21), "The Snarl in the Balcony" (pg 24). Note: drawings by Merton contained in the Jester magazine are not mentioned in Dell'Isola.
Label NUP1
Date Medieval Issue Short Title: Drawing
Pages Page 26
Record Number 2345
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1938
Title Bob Lax's Small Oasis - Look Tiger and Spring for all
Journal The Columbia Jester Magazine
Volume Volume 39
Notes Soft cover; this item also contains a drawing by Merton (pg 23) and 3 by Ad Reinhardt (pg 7, 8, 9). Note: drawings by Merton contained in the Jester magazine are not mentioned in Dell'Isola.
Label NUP1
Date April Short Title: Bob Lax's Small Oasis - Look Tiger and Spring for all
Pages Page 33
Record Number 2346
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1938
Title Bob Lax's Small Oasis - Look Tiger and Spring for all
Journal The Columbia Jester magazine
Volume Volume 39
Notes Soft cover; this item also contains a drawing by Merton (pg 23) and 3 by Ad Reinhardt (pg 7, 8, 9). Note: drawings by Merton contained in the Jester magazine are not mentioned in Dell'Isola.
Label NUP1
Date April Short Title: Bob Lax's Small Oasis - Look Tiger and Spring for all
Pages Page 33
Record Number 2347
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1938
Title Drawing
Journal The Columbia Jester Magazine
Volume Volume 39
Notes Soft cover; this item also contains an article titled "Bob Lax's Oasis / a Joke" (possibly by Merton - similar title to other Merton contributions, see vol 39, #5). Note: drawings by Merton contained in the Jester magazine are not mentioned in Dell'Isola.
Label NUP1
Date February Short Title: Drawing
Pages Page 24
Record Number 2348
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1938
Title Window (pg 10); Voyage to Nyak (pg 12 and 26); Your Night to Howl (pg 21)
Journal The Columbia Jester Magazine
Volume Volume 39
Notes Soft cover; this item also includes a drawing by Merton (pg 12) and Ed Rice (pg 16) and an article by Merton's friend Robert Gerdy titled "As we don't See Them" (pg 9). Note: drawings by Merton contained in the Jester magazine are not mentioned in Dell'Isola.
Label NUP1
Date March Short Title: Window (pg 10); Voyage to Nyak (pg 12 and 26); Your Night to Howl (pg 21)
Record Number 2349
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1938
Title Bob Lax's Oasis / Old Glory Old Junk
Journal The Columbia Jester Magazine
Volume Volume 39
Notes Soft cover; this item also contains cover artwork by Ad Reinhardt and 2 drawings by Merton (page 12 and 13). Note: drawings by Merton contained in the Jester magazine are not mentioned in Dell'Isola.
Label NUP1
Pages Pages 8 and 23 Short Title: Bob Lax's Oasis / Old Glory Old Junk
Record Number 2350
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1937
Title Raw Lie Unraw (first line of untitled poem)
Journal The Columbia Jester Magazine
Volume Volume 39
Notes Soft cover; this item also contains an article by Merton's friend Robert Lax titled "14 Ocks" and a drawing by Ed Rice (pg 25).
Label NUP1
Date October Short Title: Raw Lie Unraw (first line of untitled poem)
Pages Page 16
Record Number 2353
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1937
Title Bob Lax's Oasis / Happy Planets Happy Beasts
Journal The Columbia Jester Magazine
Volume Volume 39
Notes Soft cover; this item also contains 4 drawings by Merton (pg 8), a drawing by Ad Renhardt (pg 27), and a drawing by Ed Rice (pg 21). Note: drawings by Merton contained in the Jester magazine are not mentioned in Dell'Isola.
Label NUP1
Date December Short Title: Bob Lax's Oasis / Happy Planets Happy Beasts
Pages Page 16
Record Number 2354
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1937
Title Drawings (3)
Journal The Columbia Jester Magazine
Volume Volume 38
Notes Soft cover. Note: drawings by Merton contained in the Jester magazine are not mentioned in Dell'Isola.
Label NUP1
Pages Pages 9, 39, 41 Short Title: Drawings (3)
Record Number 2355
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1937
Title Bob Lax's Oasis / Nineteen Questions for Social Blights
Journal The Columbia Jester Magazine
Volume Volume 39
Notes Soft cover; this item also includes an article by Robert Lax titled "Legend for an Ungracious Lady" (pg 24).
Label NUP1
Date November Short Title: Bob Lax's Oasis / Nineteen Questions for Social Blights
Pages Page 24
Record Number 2356
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1937
Title Drawings (3)
Journal The Columbia Jester Magazine
Volume Volume 37
Notes Soft cover; This item also contains an article by Merton's friend Robert Lax titled "Snarl in the Balcony" (pg 17-19), and a drawing by ed Rice (pg 24). Note: drawings by Merton contained in the Jester magazine are not mentioned in Dell'Isola.
Label NUP1
Date Omnibus Issue Short Title: Drawings (3)
Pages Pages 12, 14, 25
Record Number 2361
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1956
Title Two Meditations for our Members / The Priest in Union with Mary Immaculate
Journal Convivium
Volume #1
Notes Soft cover, this article is unique in that it has not been published elsewhere. This item was received with gratitude from Paul Turner Harris - friend of Dorothy Day and Catherine Doherty. This item also contains the preface to Merton's Living Bread.
Label NUP
Date First year Short Title: Two Meditations for our Members / The Priest in Union with Mary Immaculate
Pages Pages 27-37.
Record Number 2309
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1967
Title The Death of God and the End of History
Journal Theoria and Theory
Volume Volume #2
Notes Soft cover; this is the first appearance of this article in a periodical.
Label NP
Date October Short Title: The Death of God and the End of History
Pages Pages 3-16.
Record Number 2311
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1963
Title Rise up O Men of God / Prepare for Disarmament
Journal The New Zealand Christian Pacifist
Volume Volume 17
Notes Soft cover; this article was published under the title Two Articles by Thomas Merton / The Root of war; Red or Dead: The Anatomy of a Cliche, by Fellowship Publications in 1962. This is the only time it was published using the Rise up O Men of God title.
Label NP
Date September Short Title: Rise up O Men of God / Prepare for Disarmament
Pages Pages 1-2.
Record Number 2289
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1950
Title Song (When rain...)
Journal Poetry Quarterly
Volume Volume 12
Label PN
Date Summer Short Title: Song (When rain...)
Pages Page 68
Abstract Soft cover; this poem was first published in "Tears of the Blind Lions" (1949).
Record Number 2291
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1964
Title Truth and Violence
Journal Continuum
Volume Volume 2
Notes Soft cover, this is the first appearance of this article in a periodical.
Label NP
Date Summer Short Title: Truth and Violence
Pages Pages 268-281
Record Number 2293
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1948
Title The Gift of Understanding
Journal The Tiger's Eye
Volume Volume 1
Notes Soft cover; this is the first appearance of this essay in a periodical - not published again until 1961.
Label NP
Date December Short Title: The Gift of Understanding
Pages Pages 41-45
Record Number 2276
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1962
Title If You Seek a Heavenly Light
Journal Approach / A Literary Quarterly
Notes Soft cover; this item has not been mentioned in any bibliographic texts, and is likely the first appearance of this item in a periodical.
Label P
Date Spring Short Title: If You Seek a Heavenly Light Call Number: NP
Pages Page 2
Record Number 2188
Reference Type Pamphlet
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1963
Title Comment on Erich Fromm's "War Within Man" Published Source: Beyond Deterrence
Publisher American Friends Service Committee
Edition Soft cover pamphlet; first appearance of this "comment" in print. Short Title: Comment on Erich Fromm's "War Within Man
Notes Soft cover
Label NP
Pages Pages 44-50
Record Number 2186
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1968
Title Faith and Violence (excerpt)
Journal Catholic Worker
Volume Vol 34
Notes Newsprint - price 1 cent.
Label NP
Date November Short Title: Faith and Violence (excerpt)
Pages Page 1
Record Number 2187
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1967
Title Ishi - A Meditation
Journal Catholic Worker
Volume Vol 33
Notes Newsprint - price 1 cent. This issue contains an article by Dorothy Day.
Label NP
Date March-April Short Title: Ishi - A Meditation
Pages Pages 5-6
Record Number 2181
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1967
Title The Shoshoneans (a Review Article)
Journal Catholic Worker
Volume Vol 33
Notes Newsprint - price 1 cent.
Label NP
Date June Short Title: The Shoshoneans (a Review Article)
Pages Pages 5-6
Record Number 2182
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1967
Title Auschwitz: A Family Camp
Journal Catholic Worker
Volume Vol 33
Notes Newsprint - price 1 cent.
Label NP
Date November Short Title: Auschwitz: A Family Camp
Pages Pages 4, 5, 8
Record Number 2183
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1968
Title The Sacred City
Journal Catholic Worker
Volume Vol 34
Notes Newsprint - price 1 cent.
Label NP
Date January Short Title: The Sacred City
Pages Pages 4-6
Record Number 2184
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1968
Title An Ideal Society
Journal Catholic Worker
Volume Volume 34
Notes Newsprint - price 1 cent. This article is not elsewhere published or mentioned in other bibliographic references.
Label NPU
Pages Page 4 Short Title: An Ideal Society
Record Number 2542
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1962
Title The Root of War
Journal Pax Bulletin
Label NPM
Date January Short Title: The Root of War
Pages Pages 5-6
Abstract Soft cover. This item is a part of a group of over 30 original mimeographs and offprints purchased from Merton bookdealer Jeannette Cantrell who received them from monk of Gethsemani Tom Zele. This group of items were obtained by Zele during the 1960s while living alongside Merton at the monastery.
Record Number 2540
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1968
Title The Way of Chuang Tzu / offprint
Journal The Mountain Path
Notes Soft cover; offprint of this excerpt from Way of Chuang Tzu - unique in that it has not been previously noted by bibliographers and is the earliest addition to a periodical of this text. This item is a part of a group of over 30 original mimeographs and offprints purchased from Merton bookdealer Jeannette Cantrell who received them from monk of Gethsemani Tom Zele. This group of items were obtained by Zele during the 1960s while living alongside Merton at the monastery.
Label NPM
Date April Short Title: The Way of Chuang Tzu / offprint
Pages Pages 102-105
Record Number 2541
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1966
Title The Zen Koan / offprint
Journal The Lugano Review
Volume Volume 1/5-6
Label NPM
Pages Pages 126-139 Short Title: The Zen Koan / offprint
Abstract Soft cover; offprint of this review of The Three Pillars of Zen by Philip Kapleau; first publication of this essay in a periodical. This item is a part of a group of over 30 original mimeographs and offprints purchased from Merton bookdealer Jeannette Cantrell who received them from monk of Gethsemani Tom Zele. This group of items were obtained by Zele during the 1960s while living alongside Merton at the monastery.
Record Number 2168
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1947-1948
Title Contemplation in a Rocking Chair (1948); Death of a Trappist (1947)
Journal Integrity
Volume 2
Notes Bound volume 2 of "Integrity" containing all issues from October 1947 - September 1948. Of interest the "Contemplation in a Rocking Chair" article seems not to have been published elsewhere - an early and rare peice of Merton writing.
Label NPU
Date Nov 1947; August 1948 Short Title: Contemplation in a Rocking Chair (1948); Death of a Trappist (1947)
Pages Pages 3-8 (#2); Pages 15-23 (#11).
Record Number 2169
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1968
Title The Great Men of Former Times / Poem - signed
Journal Genesis Grasp
Volume Volume 1
Notes Soft cover; inscribed and signed by the editor Richard Meyers.
Label NPY
Pages Pages 16-17 Short Title: The Great Men of Former Times / Poem - signed
Record Number 2539
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1968
Title Ecumenism and Monastic Renewal / offprint
Journal Journal of Ecumenical Studies
Volume Volume 5
Notes Soft cover; offprint and first appearance of this item in a periodical. This item is a part of a group of over 30 original mimeographs and offprints purchased from Merton bookdealer Jeannette Cantrell who received them from monk of Gethsemani Tom Zele. This group of items were obtained by Zele during the 1960s while living alongside Merton at the monastery.
Label NPMU
Pages Pages 268-283 Short Title: Ecumenism and Monastic Renewal / offprint
Record Number 2538
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1967
Title The Death of God, 1: The Death of God and the End of History / offprint
Journal Theoria to Theory
Volume Volume 2
Notes Soft cover; offprint and the first appearance of this item in print. This item is a part of a group of over 30 original mimeographs and offprints purchased from Merton bookdealer Jeannette Cantrell who received them from monk of Gethsemani Tom Zele. This group of items were obtained by Zele during the 1960s while living alongside Merton at the monastery.
Label NPM
Date October Short Title: The Death of God, 1: The Death of God and the End of History / offprint
Pages Pages 3-16
Record Number 2121
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1967
Title Epitaph for a Public Servant (In Memoriam - Adolph Eichmann)
Journal Motive
Volume Volume 27
Notes Soft cover; this is the first appearance of this poem in a periodical.
Label P
Date May Short Title: Epitaph for a Public Servant (In Memoriam - Adolph Eichmann)
Pages Pages 16-17.
Record Number 2122
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1964
Title To Each his Darkness, Some Paradoxes in Julian Green / Flying Signatures (title of drawings) / an essay and 4 calligraphic drawings
Journal Charlatan - What Can this Charlatan be Trying to Say???
Volume Volume 1
Notes Unbound portfolio. This is the first appearance of this Merton poem and drawings in a periodical; the item includes 6 plates that are each numbered and signed by their artists, as well as the literature sections and contents page. All contents come in the original folder. Art by Robert Friemark, Clay Walker, Carole Hedges, Douglas Prince, Gerald Gedekes and Charles Cook. Literary contributions by Thomas Merton among others.
Label P
Pages 4 pages. Epub Date: First soft cover portfolio edition. Short Title: To Each his Darkness, Some Paradoxes in Julian Green / Flying Signatures (title of drawings) / an essay and 4 calligraphic drawings
Record Number 2123
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1968
Title Dialogue and Renewal in the Contemplative Life
Journal Spiritual Life
Volume Volume 14
Notes Soft cover; this is the first apearance of this item in a periodical.
Label P
Date Spring Short Title: Dialogue and Renewal in the Contemplative Life
Pages Pages 41-52.
Record Number 2124
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1968
Title Solitude
Journal Spiritual Life
Volume Volume 14
Notes Soft cover; this is the first apearance of this item in a periodical and is the expanded version of the article titled "The Cell" from the periodical Sobernost.
Label P
Date Fall Short Title: Solitude
Pages Pages 171-178.
Record Number 2125
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1969
Title Openness and Cloister
Journal Spiritual Life
Volume Volume 15
Notes Soft cover; this is an early appearance of this article in a periodical - one of the last articles Merton wrote before his death.
Label P
Date Spring Short Title: Openness and Cloister
Pages Pages 26-36.
Record Number 2537
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1967
Title Day of a Stranger / offprint
Journal Hudson Review
Volume Volume 20
Notes Soft cover; offprint of this article and its frist appearance in a periodical. This item is a part of a group of over 30 original mimeographs and offprints purchased from Merton bookdealer Jeannette Cantrell who received them from monk of Gethsemani Tom Zele. This group of items were obtained by Zele during the 1960s while living alongside Merton at the monastery.
Label NPM
Date Summer Short Title: Day of a Stranger / offprint
Pages Pages 211-218
Record Number 2536
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1968
Title War and Vision / review of Two Leggings: The making of a Crow Warrior by Peter Nabokov (1967) - offprint
Journal Theoria to Theory
Volume Volume 2
Notes Soft cover; this is an offprint of this article. This item is a part of a group of over 30 original mimeographs and offprints purchased from Merton bookdealer Jeannette Cantrell who received them from monk of Gethsemani Tom Zele. This group of items were obtained by Zele during the 1960s while living alongside Merton at the monastery.
Label NPUM
Date July Short Title: War and Vision / review of Two Leggings: The making of a Crow Warrior by Peter Nabokov (1967) - offprint
Pages 336-342
Record Number 2535
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1968
Title Rites for the Extrusion of a Leper
Journal The Kentucky Review
Volume Volume 2, #1
Notes Soft cover; first appearance of this article in published print form (perceded by mimeograph, also in Merton-artifacts collection).
Label NP
Date February Short Title: Rites for the Extrusion of a Leper
Pages Pages 26-30
Record Number 2534
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1934
Title No, We Won't Print it
Journal Esquire / The Magazine for Men
Notes Soft cover; an early appearance of Merton in print. This is a letter by Merton to the editor of Esquire magazine.
Label PNU
Pages Page 14 Short Title: No, We Won't Print it
Record Number 2518
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1949
Title The Contemplative Life / Its Meaning and Necessity
Journal Dublin Review
Notes Soft cover. This item is the original 10 page article separated from the volume. This is Merton's first original periodical publication outside the United States.
Label NPU
Date Winter Short Title: The Contemplative Life / Its Meaning and Necessity
Pages Pages 26-35
Record Number 2111
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1950
Title September, 1949
Journal The Month
Volume Volume 3
Notes Soft cover; this is the first appearance of this article in a periodical.
Label P
Date February Short Title: September, 1949
Pages Pages 107-113.
Record Number 2108
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1947
Title The Landfall
Journal The Tiger's Eye
Volume Volume 1
Notes Soft cover magazine; this is the first appearance of this poem in a periodical. "The Tiger's Eye" is a literary magazine featuring prose, poetry and artwork from Thomas Merton, William Stafford, Anais Nin, Marianne Moore, Herbert Cahoon, Jorge E Eielson, Emilio Adolf Westphalen, David Cornell DeJong, Allan Block, Owen Dodson, Marya Zaturenska, Van Wyck Brooks, Barnett B. Newman, Rufino Tamayo, Ian Hugo, and Aaron Siskind.
Label P
Date October Short Title: The Landfall
Pages Pages 1-2.
Record Number 2103
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1966
Title For the Spanish Poet Miguel Hernandez
Journal The Sewanee Review
Volume Volume LXXIV
Notes Soft cover; this is the first appearance of this poem in a periodical.
Label P
Date Autumn Short Title: For the Spanish Poet Miguel Hernandez
Pages Pages 897-898.
Record Number 2104
Reference Type Book Section
Editor Pearse, B. Rajan & Andrew
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1946
Title Poem; Dirge for the Proud World
Publisher Dennis Dobson Ltd
Edition First hard cover edition. Short Title: Poem; Dirge for the Proud World
Label P
Pages Pages 82-83.
Book Title Focus 2 Place Published: London
Abstract Cloth and dust jacket; the poem titled "Poem" does not appear to be published elsewhere, and is not listed in bibliographic references. It begins with, "April, like a leopard in the windy woods...".
Record Number 2105
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1967
Title Newscast
Journal Free Lance
Volume Volume 6
Notes Soft cover; this is the first (and previously unmentioned by bibliographers) publication of this Merton poem in a periodical. Free Lance was a magazine put out of the Student Assembly of Washington University. This issue features an interview with Allen Ginsberg and contributions from Louis Lomax, David Friedman, Bob Elliott, Ray W. Frankland, Lowell Miller, John Bing, Samiron Chatterjee, Bob Gimprich, A.C. Forester, John Dressel, Mike Hudson, Gary Graff, X.J. Kennedy, Will Inman, George Abbe, Thomas Merton, Tod Gitlin and Bob Ross.
Label P
Pages Pages 32-33. Short Title: Newscast
Record Number 2107
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1968
Title Renouveau de la Formation Monastique
Journal Collectanea Cisterciensia
Volume Volume 30
Notes Soft cover; this article was published as "Renewal in Monastic Education" in Cistercian Studies Quarterly 3, 1968, and was translated by Charles Dumont OCSO. This is the first appearance of this article in a periodical.
Label P
Pages Pages 211-217. Short Title: Renouveau de la Formation Monastique
Record Number 2102
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1965
Title And So Goodbye to Cities
Journal The Aylesford Review
Volume Volume VII
Notes Soft cover; this is the first appearance of this poem in a periodical (and up to now uncatalogued).
Label P
Date Autumn Short Title: And So Goodbye to Cities
Pages Pages 187-188