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This issue prints chapters from a book on Robert Duncan that describe the infuence of theosophy and other hermetic orders in his youth on his poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an apparent existential philosophical essay written by Lueck with surrealistivc illustrations by Potvin. It was Potvin's personal copy dedicated to him as Floyd (Potvin's middle name) by Lueck with a drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In a mass mailing to friends, Merton writes that he is learning about Buddhism on this Asian trip. He also mentions three long meetings with the Dalai Lama. He describes other spiritual meetings and indicates that he is entirely involved with monastic encounters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover by Sister Mary Corita reprints a colored rubberstamped text of the title and subtitle. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Publisher's Weekly: "Far removed from the satirical reimagining some might expect from the father of underground comix, Crumb's long-awaited take on the first book of the Bible presents the artist's own sensitive, visually intense reflections. Where most visual adaptations edit down their prose sources, Crumb has, strikingly, included every word of the Book of Genesis within his first major book-length work. His humanistic visual response to this religious text imbues even briefly mentioned biblical characters with unique faces and attitudes, and his renderings of the book's more storied personalities draw out momentous emotions inspired by the book's inherent drama. Throughout, Genesis is a virtual portfolio of Crumb's career-long effort to instill fluid cartoon drawing with carefully rendered lifelike detail. Some might miss Crumb's full stylistic and tonal range, but the source's narrative sweep includes moments of sex and scandal that recall the artist's more notorious comics....

Scope and Contents Publisher's Weekly: "Far removed from the satirical reimagining some might expect from the father of underground comix, Crumb's long-awaited take on the first book of the Bible presents the artist's own sensitive, visually intense reflections. Where most visual adaptations edit down their prose sources, Crumb has, strikingly, included every word of the Book of Genesis within his first major book-length work. His humanistic visual response to this religious text imbues even briefly mentioned biblical characters with unique faces and attitudes, and his renderings of the book's more storied personalities draw out momentous emotions inspired by the book's inherent drama. Throughout, Genesis is a virtual portfolio of Crumb's career-long effort to instill fluid cartoon drawing with carefully rendered lifelike detail. Some might miss Crumb's full stylistic and tonal range, but the source's narrative sweep includes moments of sex and scandal that recall the artist's more notorious comics....

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This posthumous list of May 1969 lists Merton's publications and indicates that even at this date Monks Pound was out of print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Although known as a concrete poet, critic, translator, and artist in the art and poetry worlds, Houedard was also well versed in religious thoughts and traditions. Educated in the Christian monastic and contemplative traditions, Dom Sylvester had a deep knowledge of many forms of belief, which he saw as different expressions of a single wisdom. A pioneer of the wider ecumenism, he had active contacts with Tibetan Buddhism and the work of the great Islamic mystic Muhyddin Ibn' Arabi. In these talks given near the end of his life, Dom Sylvester illuminates the meanings embedded in six of Eckhart's greatest sermons. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Book description: In this companion volume to contemporary The Saint John's Bible, Christopher Calderhead takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour of this extraordinary project. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews, this book tells the story of the makers of the Bible and the community at Saint John's Abbey and University. The day-to-day struggles of such a monumental undertaking included challenges such as the selection and preparation of more than 250 calf skins. The formation of a team of calligraphers accustomed to working independently and communicating the concerns of the advisory council in Minnesota with the artists in Wales. Illuminating the Word: The Making of The Saint John's Bible explores a modern version of an age-old relationship between patron and sponsor, and the artistic director, scribes and artists producing this monumental artwork. It describes lectio divina, the unique method the Benedictine monks use to read the Bible, in which the Holy Scriptures come alive...

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This a rough draft for a theologic text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Dom (Pierre-)Sylvester Houédard (16 February 1924"“15 January 1992), also known under the acronym dsh, was a Benedictine priest, theologian and noted concrete poet. Born on Guernsey, Houédard was educated at Jesus College, Oxford. He served in British Army Intelligence from 1944 to 1947, and in 1949 joined the Benedictine Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire, being ordained as a priest in 1959. Houédard was a leading exponent of concrete poetry, with regular contributions to magazines and exhibitions from the early 1960s onward. His elaborate, typewriter-composed visual poems ("typestracts") were scattered across many chapbooks, including Kinkon (1965) and Tantric Poems Perhaps (1966). Among his best-known works is the poem Frog-Pond-Plop, his English rendition of a zen haiku by Matsuo Basho. Houédard became literary editor of the Jerusalem Bible in 1961. Houédard cultivated an interest in multiple religious traditions; he wrote commentaries on Meister Eckhart and was a founder...

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In this letter, levy discusses the discrimination against 'negroes' and the wrongful assasinations of Kennedy and Malcom X. He states that he took drugs for the first time including peyote, pot, acid, belladonna and hash and "I am quite tired." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This letter page might be a seicond of two that cannot be found. In it, Houedard discusses the religious life of monks as seen from the outside world.The remainder of the letter deals with meeting the person to whom it is addressed. Desmond, a prisoner that dsh befriended is also mentioned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this letter, levy tells aboit his religious, Buddhist experences after ingesting drugs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The author of this text is an important Spanish concrete poet. This book is concerned with practices of the Catholic Church in Spain during the 16th and 17th centuries. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a transcript of a talk dealing with Marxism and Buddhism on the day Merton met his death as a result of an auto accident. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Wikipedia: Hassan-i Sabbāh (Persian: حسن صباح"Ž; 1050s"“1124) was a NizārÄ« Ismā"Ä«lÄ« missionary who converted a community in the late 11th century in the heart of the Alborz Mountains of northern Persia. He later seized a mountain fortress called Alamut and used it as the headquarters for a decentralized Persian insurrection against the dominant Seljuk Turks. He founded a group of fedayeen whose members are often referred to as the Hashshashin, or "Assassins". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.