Ebook: In the dark before dawn: new selected poems of Thomas Merton

From the Publisher: A new view of the innovative poetry by the late, great Trappist monk and religious philosopher.;Preface -- Introduction -- 1: Geography's landscapes -- Night train -- Aubade: Lake Erie -- Ohio River: Louisville -- Aubade: Harlem -- Hymn of not much praise for New York City -- Figures for an apocalypse -- In the ruins of New York -- Landscape: beast -- Heavenly city -- Christopher Columbus -- Guns of Fort Knox -- Darjeeling -- Songs of experience: India, one -- 2: Poems From The Monastery -- Holy Communion: the city -- Trappist Abbey: matins -- Blessed Virgin compared to a window -- How long we wait -- Letter to my friends -- Trappists, working -- After the night office: Gethsemani Abbey -- Trappist Cemetery: Gethsemani -- Poem in the rain and the sun -- Spring: monastery farm -- Reader -- On a day in August -- Elegy for the monastery barn -- Solitary life -- Elegy for a Trappist -- Merlin and the deer -- Old monk is turned loose -- Practical program for monks -- 3: Poems Of The Sacred -- Song -- Sacred Heart 2 -- Winter's night -- Vine -- Biography -- Advent -- Carol -- Ash Wednesday -- On the anniversary of my baptism -- Theory of prayer -- Senescente mundo -- Early mass -- Hagia Sophia -- Night of destiny -- [Untitled] -- 4: Songs Of Contemplation -- Evening -- Song for our Lady of Cobre -- Two states of prayer -- Evening: zero weather -- Sowing of meanings -- Psalm -- Elias: variations on a theme -- In silence -- Stranger -- Grace's house -- Song for nobody -- Song: if you seek -- O sweet irrational worship -- Night-flowering cactus -- Love winter when the plant says nothing -- Song: contemplation -- Joy of fishes -- 5: History's Voices: Past And Present -- Dirge for the world Joyce died in -- In memory of the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca -- Elegy for Ernest Hemingway -- Elegy for James Thurber -- Rilke's epitaph -- Message to be inscribed on Mark Van Doren's Hamilton Medal -- Two British airmen -- Original child bomb -- Paper cranes -- Chant to be used in processions around a site with furnaces -- Epitaph for a public servant -- Picture of Lee Ying -- Children of Birmingham -- Picture of a black child with a white doll -- April 4th 1968 -- Seneca -- Origen -- Fall '66 -- 6: Engaging The World -- Philosophers -- Tower of Babel -- Letter to America -- from Cables to the ace -- from Geography of Lograire: South I -- South III-hymns of Lograire -- North: prologue: why I have a wet footprint on top of my mind -- West I: day six O'Hare Telephane -- West III: Ghost Dance: prologue -- Originators -- Readings from Ibn Abbad (5, 7) -- Man of Tao -- Turtle -- Where is Tao? -- 7: On Being Human -- For my brother: reported missing in action, 1943 -- Freedom as experience -- Whether there is enjoyment in bitterness -- Fall -- Carol -- Antipoem 1 -- With the world in my blood stream -- Untitled poem -- I always obey my nurse -- Louisville Airport -- May song -- Aubade on a cloudy morning -- Never call a babysitter in a thunderstorm -- Cherokee Park -- Evening: long distance call -- Cancer blues -- Six night letters -- For M In October -- For M on a cold grey morning -- 8: Merton And Other Languages -- Le secret (Thomas Merton) / Riddle (translation, Br Paul Quenon) -- Je crois en l'amour (Thomas Merton)/ I believe in love (translation, Br Paul Quenon) -- Three epigrams / Ernesto Cardenal -- When the shoe fits / Chuang Tzu -- Birth of the sun / Pablo Antonio Cuadra -- Two palm trees / Miguel Hernandez -- Chagall / Raissa Maritain -- Black stone on top of a white stone / Cesar Vallejo -- Butterfly / Nicanor Parra -- Poetry ends with me / Nicanor Parra -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index of titles and first lines.