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US US-kylobm TMC-RG3-i-184a
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Title
Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz.
Date(s)
- 1996 (Creation)
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Name of creator
(1915-1968)
Biographical history
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a writer and Trappist monk at Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky. His writings include such classics as The Seven Storey Mountain, New Seeds of Contemplation, and Zen and the Birds of Appetite. Merton is the author of… Read more
Name of creator
(1911-2004)
Biographical history
Czeslaw Milosz was a Polish poet who among his many accolades won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. Milosz was part of the Polish socialist resistance to the Nazis during World War II. After the war, he sought political asylum in France, opposing… Read more
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