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Thirty poems

Title

Thirty poems / Thomas Merton.

Author

Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968

Publication

Norfolk, Connecticut : New Directions, [1944]
New York : Marchbanks Press
©1944

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Not available - Please for assistance.	Text	Restricted use	Berg Coll 22-2264	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320
Not available - Please for assistance.	Text	Restricted use	Berg Coll 22-1297	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	*KSD (The Poet of the month. 1944. [no. 3])	Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Description

29 unnumbered pages; 23 cm

Series Statement

Poets of the year ; 1944

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

American poetry > 20th century

Genre/Form

Poetry.
Dust jackets – Connecticut – Norfolk – 1944.
Private press books – New York (State) – New York – 1944.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Kenntonian.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Lombardic.

Note

New Directions - The Poets of the Year - Norfolk : Connecticut" -- title page.
"New Directions Books are published by James Laughlin" -- title page verso.
"Designed for New Directions by Algot Ringstrom and printed at The Marchbanks Press, New York City, in July, 1944. The types used are Kenntonian and Lombardic initials." -- colophon.

Indexed In (note)

Carruth, H. New Directions reader
Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Binding (note)

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1297 bound in publishers' tan paper over boards; with original tan paper dust jacket.
Copy in Berg Coll 22-2264 is bound in publisher's plain stiff wrappers; with original dust jacket.

Contents

Lent in a year of war -- The flight into Egypt -- Prophet -- The dark morning -- Song for Our Lady of Cobre -- The night train -- Saint Jason -- The messenger -- The regret -- Poem -- Aubade: Lake Erie -- For my brother: reported missing in action, 1943 -- Iphigenia: politics -- The winter's night -- Death -- Holy communion: the city -- The communion -- Evening -- The vine -- The evening of the visitation -- In memory of the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca -- The Trappist abbey: matins (Our Lady of Gethsemani, Kentucky) -- The Blessed Virgin Mary compared to a window -- Ariadne at the labyrinth -- Dirge for the proud world -- The holy sacrament of the altar -- An argument: of the Passion of Christ -- St. Agnes: a responsary -- The Holy Child's song -- The sponge full of vinegar.

Call Number

*KSD (The Poet of the month. 1944. [no. 3])

LCCN

45000763

OCLC

1911736

Author

Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968, author.

Title

Thirty poems / Thomas Merton.

Publisher

Norfolk, Connecticut : New Directions, [1944]

Manufacturer

New York : Marchbanks Press

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Poets of the year ; 1944

Indexed In:

Carruth, H. New Directions reader, page 232

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 12

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1297 bound in publishers' tan paper over boards; with original tan paper dust jacket. NN

Copy in Berg Coll 22-2264 is bound in publisher's plain stiff wrappers; with original dust jacket. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1297 & Berg Coll 22-2264 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Copy in Berg Coll 22-2264 is one of six volumes in a slipcase.

Added Author

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Ringstrom, Algot, book designer.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Marchbanks Press, printer.

Research Call Number

*KSD (The Poet of the month. 1944. [no. 3])

Berg Coll 22-1297

Berg Coll 22-2264

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