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Figures for an Apocalypse

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01From a ball-point quillThomas Merton's first book of poems, A Man in the Divided Sea (including his previously publishedSweeney, Francis America 79 (19 June 1948): 272-274. Francis Sweeney.
1948
02Poetry, criticism, memoirs and shorter fictionThe Trappists and their life are becoming quite prominent on the American scene. Their latest move  America (13 November 1948)
1948
03The Ivory TowerO brilliant wood / Yours is the voice of a new world. / And all the hills burn with such blindingHanlon, Frank Bulletin Philadelphia (11 April 1948). Frank Hanlon.
1948
04BooksIn these days of meat and butter at a dollar a pound, it is wonderful indeed that for $2.50 a throwFremantle, Anne Commonweal 48 (13 August 1948): 430-431. Anne Fremantly
1948
05What if God Will?It is difficult to appraise this new collection of poems by the Trappist poet, Thomas Merton withoutDavidson, Gustav Courant Hartford CT (22 August 1948) Gustav Davidson.
1948
06Merton's Lates Religious Poetry Has Much ImageryRobert Louis Stevenson defended Father Damien of lepers' Molokai with every flourish of hisBrady, Charles A. Evening News Buffalo (24 July 1948) Charles A. Brady
1948
07Review: Recent VerseOf these five poets, one, Allen Tate, with a writing career of twenty-five years behind him, hasDavenport, Frederick Morgan Hudson Review 1 (Summer 1948): 258-266. Frederick Morgan Davenport
1948
08The Artist's and the Mystic's ApproachAmong the most interesting pages in Thomas Merton's new book are those that this Trappist poetDeutsch, Babette New York Herald-Tribune (4 July 1948) Babette Deutsch
1948
09Exciting, Low VoicesIn the first of these volumes an exciting young voice speaks out - a voice humble yet authoritativeGriffin, John Howard Saturday Review of Literature [NY] (10 July 1948): 21, 26. Howard Griffin.
1948
10Life and Poems of a Trappist MonkBecause Thomas Merton's autobiography, "The Seven Storey Mountain" (the title refers to Dante'sGregory, Horace New York Times Book Review (3 October 1948): 4,33. Horace Gregory
1948
11Book ReviewsAbout ten years ago Thomas Merton with a companion communist-minded student signed up for a courseMadeleva, Sister M., CSC Thomist 12 (January 1949): 101-106. Sister M. Madelveva, CSC.
1949
12The Nature of ConvictionSeldom does one come across a book eloquent not only of such a beneficent nature but also of greatGriffin, John Howard Voices 134 (1948): 60-62. John Howard Griffin.
1948
13Merton, Thomas. Figures for an apocalypse. 111p $2.50 New DirectionsThe third volume of poems by a Trappist monk, written at Our Lady of Gethsemani monastery inDeutsch, Babette; T.H. Ferril Book Rev Digest (August 1949). Contains excerpts of reviews by Babette Deutsch and T.H. Ferril
1949
14Merton, Thomas, O.C.S.O. Figures for an apocalypse. Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, 1948. 111p.All of these poems have been written at the Trappist Monastery of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky  Catholic Booklist Rosary College River Forest Ill (1949).
1949
15Figures for an apocalypse, by Thomas Merton, O.C.S.O. (New Directions, $2.50)New poems of Trappist convert, a prophetic outcry that defies the limitations of words; bound with  Catholic Messenger Davenport Iowa (22 April 1948)
1948
16Figures for an apocalypse. By Thomas Merton. New York: New Directions; $2.50A Trappist monk, encouraged by his superiors to pursue his art, is moving through states of "active"  Chronicle San Francisco California (13 June 1948).
1948
17Figures for an apocalypse. Thomas Merton. New Directions. $2.50.This later poetry of Merton's relates with emotional power his spiritual odyssey from New York to a  Commonweal (3 Dec 1948)
1948
18Figures for an Apocalypse. By Thomas Merton. New Directions. $2.50Glowing poems, on religious themes, by a Trappist monk.  Journal [Milwaukee Wisconsin] (5 December 1948)
1948
19Figures for an Apocalypse By Thomas Merton, O.C.S.O. (New Directions, $2.50)New poems of Trappist convert, a prophetic outcry that defies the limitations of words; bound with  Mirror [Springfield, Mass] (May 1948)
1948
20 Where Sullivan is objective and somewhat primitive, Trappist convert-poet Thomas Merton, in his  Pilot Boston Mass (17 April 1948).
1948
21 Other books of verse by writers whose work leaves the average reader more or less in the dark  Star Washington DC (7 December 1947)
1947
22 The library also has acquired a copy of Thomas Merton's latest book of poetry, "Figures for an  Tribune LaCrosse Wisconsin (13 April 1949)
1949
23Figures for an apocalypsethesis and antithesis have at last met to produce synthesis in modern poetry, and the result isWalsh, Chad Journal of Bible and Religion 17.2 (April 1949): 129. Chad Walsh
1949
24Poetry and PerfectionIt is supposed that there is a great, tired, thick-headed public indifference to poetry, and that weFitzgerald, Robert Sewanee Review 56.4 (Autumn 1948): 685-697. Robert Fitzgerald
1948
25Arts and PoetryThomas Merton is a young Trappist monk in the monastery of Our Lady of Gethsemani, Kentucky. ThisMadeleva, Sister M., CSC Books on Trial 7 (July-august 1948): 63. Sister M. Madeleva CSC
1948
26A Third MertonFigures for an Apocalypse comprises approximately forty poems (counting the initial eight partMcCauliff, George A. Spirit 15 (July 1948): 88-90.
1948