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Dialogues with Silence: Prayers & Drawings

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The Private Merton

This intensely personal book from without equal spiritual creator of our time shows his contemplative and devotional side through his prayers and rarely seen drawings.  Capturing the quiet epiphanies within the life of a Trappist monk who used to be a celebrated creator and activist, this volume offers a glimpse into a lesser-known side of this timeless explorer of the life of the soul.

Even though best known for his spiritual writings, Thomas Merton also made drawings, whose Eastern-style brushwork have a meditative power rivaling that of his finest prayers. In Dialogues with Silence, these (most commonly unpublished) drawings–of human figures, churches, the crucifixion, and abstract forms–are paired on pages with the texts of his well-known prayers. Editor Jonathan Montaldo’s introduction to this volume asserts that Merton, the writer of classics including The Seven Storey Mountain, became a:

witness for his generation of the best way out of self-defeating individualism by tracking anew the boundaries of that ancient other country, whose citizens recognize a hidden ground of unity and love among all living things.

He may have added that, for Merton, one direct escape from individualism used to be the act of loving other individuals, an aspect of Merton’s character that shines clearly within the many portraits here. Notably, probably the most arresting of these images is a face without features. It hovers next to a prayer that begins, “O God, my God, why am I so mute?” –Michael Joseph Gross

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