Thomas Merton
Original Child Bomb
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Original Child Bomb
Original Child Bomb: Points for Meditation to Be Scratched on the Walls of a Cave
A numbered prose poem on the Hiroshima bomb, built out of the cold language of official reports. It is his first major public intervention against nuclear weapons.
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English
Thomas Merton
Original Child Bomb
The Conscious LibraryOriginal Child Bomb
Unicorn Press, 1983
ISBN 9780877751588
Thomas Merton
Original Child Bomb
The Conscious LibraryOriginal Child Bomb
New Directions, 1962
Español
Thomas Merton
Niña bomba original
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Ediciones LAM, 1965
Translation: Mary-Lu Sanan
Other works by Thomas Merton
- Thirty Poems · 1944
- A Man in the Divided Sea · 1946
- Figures for an Apocalypse · 1947
- Exile Ends in Glory · 1948
- What Are These Wounds? · 1948
- The Seven Storey Mountain · 1948
- Guide to Cistercian Life · 1948
- Cistercian Contemplatives · 1948
- The Spirit of Simplicity · 1948
- What Is Contemplation? · 1948
- Seeds of Contemplation · 1949
- The Tears of the Blind Lions · 1949
- The Waters of Siloe · 1949
- Gethsemani Magnificat · 1949
- The Ascent to Truth · 1951
- Bread in the Wilderness · 1953
- The Sign of Jonas · 1953
- The Last of the Fathers · 1954
- No Man Is an Island · 1955
- The Living Bread · 1956
- Praying the Psalms · 1956
- Silence in Heaven · 1956
- The Silent Life · 1957
- The Strange Islands · 1957
- The Tower of Babel · 1957
- Basic Principles of Monastic Spirituality · 1957
- Monastic Peace · 1958
- Nativity Kerygma · 1958
- Prometheus: A Meditation · 1958
- Thoughts in Solitude · 1958
- The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton · 1959
- Selected Poems · 1959
- Disputed Questions · 1960
- The Wisdom of the Desert · 1960
- Spiritual Direction and Meditation · 1960
- The Solitary Life · 1960
- The New Man · 1961
- The Behavior of Titans · 1961
- New Seeds of Contemplation · 1961
- Hagia Sophia · 1962
- Clement of Alexandria · 1962
- A Thomas Merton Reader · 1962
- Breakthrough to Peace · 1962
- Life and Holiness · 1963
- Emblems of a Season of Fury · 1963
- Come to the Mountain · 1964
- Seeds of Destruction · 1964
- Gandhi on Non-Violence · 1965
- The Way of Chuang Tzu · 1965
- Seasons of Celebration · 1965
- Raids on the Unspeakable · 1966
- Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander · 1966
- Redeeming the Time · 1966
- Gethsemani: A Life of Praise · 1966
- Mystics and Zen Masters · 1967
- Cables to the Ace · 1968
- Faith and Violence · 1968
- Zen and the Birds of Appetite · 1968
- Monks Pond · 1968
- My Argument with the Gestapo · 1969
- Contemplative Prayer · 1969
- The Geography of Lograire · 1969
- Opening the Bible · 1970
- Contemplation in a World of Action · 1971
- Thomas Merton on Peace · 1971
- The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton · 1973
- He Is Risen · 1975
- Ishi Means Man · 1976
- The Monastic Journey · 1977
- The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton · 1977
- Love and Living · 1979
- Thomas Merton on Saint Bernard · 1980
- The Nonviolent Alternative · 1980
- The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton · 1981
- Day of a Stranger · 1981
- Introductions East and West · 1981
- Woods, Shore, Desert · 1982
- Eighteen Poems · 1985
- The Hidden Ground of Love · 1985
- A Vow of Conversation · 1988
- Thomas Merton in Alaska · 1988
- The Road to Joy · 1989
- The School of Charity · 1990
- The Springs of Contemplation · 1992
- Thomas Merton, Spiritual Master · 1992
- The Courage for Truth · 1993
- Witness to Freedom · 1994
- At Home in the World · 1995
- Thoughts on the East · 1995
- Run to the Mountain · 1995
- Entering the Silence · 1996
- A Search for Solitude · 1996
- Turning Toward the World · 1996
- Dancing in the Water of Life · 1997
- Learning to Love · 1997
- The Other Side of the Mountain · 1998
- Diarios (Spanish two-volume selection) · 2001
- Striving Towards Being · 1997
- Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters · 1997
- From Monastery to World · 1998
- The Intimate Merton · 1999
- Dialogues with Silence · 2001
- When Prophecy Still Had a Voice · 2001
- Survival or Prophecy? · 2002
- The Inner Experience · 2003
- Seeking Paradise · 2003
- Peace in the Post-Christian Era · 2004
- In the Dark Before Dawn · 2005
- Cassian and the Fathers · 2005
- Cold War Letters · 2006
- Pre-Benedictine Monasticism · 2006
- Echoing Silence · 2007
- An Introduction to Christian Mysticism · 2008
- A Life in Letters · 2008
- The Rule of Saint Benedict · 2009
- Compassionate Fire · 2009
- Monastic Observances · 2010
- The Life of the Vows · 2012
- Selected Essays · 2013
- In the Valley of Wormwood · 2013
- Merton and the Tao · 2013
- The Letters of Thomas Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer · 2014
- Early Essays, 1947–1952 · 2015
- Charter, Customs, and Constitutions of the Cistercians · 2015
- The Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton · 2015
- The Cistercian Fathers and Their Monastic Theology · 2016
- Cistercian Fathers and Forefathers · 2018
- Medieval Cistercian History · 2019
- A Monastic Introduction to Sacred Scripture · 2020
- Beholding Paradise · 2020
- Notes on Genesis and Exodus · 2021
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