{"product_id":"merton-thomas-in-the-darpb","title":"Merton, Thomas: In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew Directions, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: April 17, 2005\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003eA new, broad, comprehensive view of the innovative poetry of the late, great Trappist monk and religious philosopher Thomas Merton. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003ePoet, Trappist monk, religious philosopher, translator, social criticthe late Thomas Merton was all these things. Until now, no selection from his great body of poetry has afforded a comprehensive view of his varied and largely innovative work. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eIn the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton\u003c\/i\u003e is not only double the size of Merton's earlier \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (1967), it also arranges his poetry thematically and chronologically, so that readers can follow the poet's multifarious interrelated lines of thought as well as his poetic development over the decades, from his college days in the 1930s to his untimely accidental death in Bangkok in 1968 during his personal Eastern pilgrimage.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003eThe selections are grouped under eight thematic headings\"Geography's Landscapes,\" \"Poems from the Monastery,\" \"Poems of the Sacred,\" \"Songs of Contemplation,\" \"History's Voices: Past and Present,\" \"Engaging the World,\" \"On Being Human,\" \"Merton and Other Languages.\"\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817179262999,"sku":"9780811216135","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/71z7cPt_GnL._SL1500.jpg?v=1794170269","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/merton-thomas-in-the-darpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}