Thomas Merton photograph, 196u [picture].

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Thomas Merton photograph, 196u [picture].

This is a scanned copy of a black and white photograph. The photograph measures 8" x 8" and is on 8.5" x 11" photographic paper. In this photograph, Thomas Merton is holding the Tharsus and his hat while standing in a corn field after harvest. Skip Johnson photographed Merton and the Tharsus, which poet Jonathan Williams constructed. Information about this image originates from handwritten notes on the photograph.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7242063

Appalachian State University, ASU

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Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968

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Thomas Merton was born on January 31, 1915 in Prades, France to Owen Merton (an artist from New Zealand) and Ruth Jenkins Merton (an artist from the United States), and grew up in New York, Bermuda, France, and England. Merton studied both in Europe and America, and he received a BA and an MA in journalism from Columbia University in 1938 and 1939. In 1938, Merton converted to Catholicism. He taught for two years at St. Bonaventure College in New York before entering the Abbey of Gethsemani i...

Appalachian State University. W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection. Archives.

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Johnson, Skip, 1939-

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North Carolina poet Jonathan Chamberlain Williams (1929-2008) was tied to the experimental liberal arts Black Mountain College and its school of writing, sometimes referred to as the Beat movement's East Coast wing. From the description of Thomas Merton photograph, 196u [picture]. (Western North Carolina Library Network). WorldCat record id: 272997542 ...

Williams, Jonathan, 1929-2008

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Jonathan Williams is a poet, publisher, and photographer. He was educated at St. Albans School, Princeton University, and Black Mountain College, and also studied art and design at the Institute of Design in Chicago. His published books of poetry include An Ear in Bartram's Tree (1969), Blues and Roots/Rue and Bluets (1971), The Loco Logodaedalus in Situ (1972), and Elite/Elate Poems (1979), and his published books of photography include Portrait Photographs (1979) and A Palpable Elysium: Photog...