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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Ignatow, David".
David Ignatow is a poet who was born in Brooklyn, New York, and wrote much about the urban experience. He became a professor teaching at the University of Kentucky, University of Kansas, and later returning to the northeast and Columbia University. Not long before going to Columbia, he was at Vassar College. This was where he was in contact with Merton about poems for Monks Pond. He also taught a student from Vassar with whom Merton had been corresponding, Nancy Fly Bredenberg.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also contributions to Monks Pond, pp. 184-185; and see also the "Bredenberg, Nancy Fly" file.
If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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1968/01/31 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Many thanks for the two Ballard pieces which I very much enjoyed. I've been meaning to write about |
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1968/04/18 |
TLS to Merton |
Thanks for theinvitation [sic] to submit poems. I've heard of your mag from Fly Bredenberg, |
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1968/04/21 (#01) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Many many thanks. I am most happy to have something of yours for the POND. I am keeping three |
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1968/04/21 (#02) |
TL[c] from Merton |
Many many thanks. I am most happy to have something of yours for the POND. I am keeping three |
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1973/11/30 |
TLS[x] from Center to Ignatow, David |
Mr. Victor Kramer at Georgia State University has requested permission to look at your |
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1973/12/05 |
TLS to Center from Ignatow, David |
I'm happy to comply with your request by enclosing a xerox of the original letter sent to me by |
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