What's the opposite of an encomium? Poet Thomas Merton explored this in
"Hymn of Not Much Praise for New York City"; Merton, a Trappist monk who became an ordained priest, was a writer, mystic, and social activist and philosopher, who died in 1968. January 31 reflects the Centenary of his birth to expat New Zealander and American artists in France.
Thomas Merton
Other work by Merton at the Poetry Foundation website
here
His
The Seven Storey Mountain, first published in 1948, by Harcourt Brace, remains a classic spiritual autobiography of a modern seeker.
More writings about Merton
here
--Anthony Napoli
Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn
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