[lit-ideas] Re: Merton (was SUNDAY POEM)
- From: Brian <cabrian@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 11:20:47 -0500
Mike, I don't know that you'd have any interest in this but since you
mention the Catholic Worker and Merton I thought I'd recommend a book
called THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN by Paul Elie. An editor for
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Elie ties Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy,
Dorothy Day and Merton together in terms of pilgrimage of a
specifically Catholic and literary kind.
Brian
On May 16, 2005, at 8:10 AM, Mike Geary wrote:
> Brian:
>
>> You took an opposite path as Thomas Merton - have you ever read SEVEN
>> STOREY MOUNTAIN?
>>
>
>
> Yes, indeed. In fact St. Mary's Seminary where I studied (now a
> women's
> prison -- I love that!) wasn't very far from Gethsemane, the Trappist
> Monastery Merton belonged to. I often thought of trying to contact
> him
> there, but, typically, I never did get around to even trying.
> Merton was a
> hero of mine, his involvement in the peace movement and furtherance
> of civil
> rights and his interest in Eastern spirituality made him so. I
> remember
> reading his Seeds Of Destruction in the mid 60's. It was not a
> very hopeful
> book. Those were my Catholic Worker days and I was looking forward
> eagerly
> to the transformation of America into a just and egalitarian
> society. He
> brought me back down to earth. Though a contemplative, he didn't
> look at
> life through polarized glasses.
>
> Mike Geary
> Memphis
>
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