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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Seitz, Ron, 1935-2011

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1968

Volume: 11 item(s); 43 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Seitz, Ron".

Biography

Ron Seitz was a poet, author, essayist, and a former professor of creative writing at University of Louisville and Bellarmine University. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, but traveled extensively as a young man and took a variety of different jobs before returning to Louisville.

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Related Information and Links

See also contributions to Monks Pond, pp. 103, 164, 326; and see also the "Stone, Naomi Burton" file.

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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.
   

Series List

Series NumberSeries NameTotal Records
1 Correspondence between Ron Seitz and Thomas Merton from the original file. 6
2 Thomas Merton and Ron Seitz material from a poetry class. 5

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
11968/01/29 TL[c]from MertonThanks much for poems. They are very good ones. Maybe I am prejudiced because I read them sitting   
11968/02/07 TLSto MertonThanks for liking my poems. Was surprised as hell. I still think you musta had 4 or 5 cold ones   
11968/03/08 TLSto Mertonso skipped this morning the teachin (all that talk, the noise of it chilling) & lit   
11968/06/26 TALSto MertonJust a short note Tom to thank you for my poem in POND #2 & also thank you for meeting beautiful   
11968/06/26 (#01)TALSto MertonJust a short note Tome to thank you for my poem in POND #2 & also thank you for meeting   
11968/06/26 (#02)otherto MertonREQUIEM [-] <u>for Pop Seitz my grandfather</u> [-] to begin-- [-] a dingdong bloom of bells  [3 poems by Seitz sent to Merton: "for Pop Seitz my grandfather", "HAPPENING for Dick Sisto", and "POET THIS MORNING"]
2undated/no/no (#01)otherby Seitz, Ron2 POEMS DEAR TOM [-] for Father Merton [-] 2 poems dear Tom and high again [-] time it is to  [poems by Ron Seitz about Thomas Merton]
2undated/no/no (#02)otherby MertonTHE TRAPPIST ABBEY: MATINS [-] When the full fields begin to smell of sunrise  [selected poems by Thomas Merton with a drawing and lettering (not by Merton) spelling out "Here's Tommy" from a word bubble and a cartoon man]
2undated/no/no (#03)otherby MertonPOETRY AND CONTEMPLATION by Thomas Merton [-] There is a misleading insistence on the terms  [It is a different draft of "Poetry and Contemplation" from what was previously in the Center's archives. Possibly, it was given by Merton to Ron Seitz.]
2undated/no/no (#04)other Poems by Bellarmine Faculty and Students [-] Scene, Ash Wednesday, 1967 by Sr. Clarita Felhoelter  [poems by Sr. Clarita Felhoelter, Daniel Lawless, Cora E. Lucas ("Pereginatio" for Thomas Merton), John H. Meyer, Ron Seitz,
2undated/no/no (#05)other Nicanor Parra [-] HELP! I don't know how I got here: I was running along happy as you please  [poems by Nicanor Parra, John Berryman, Philip Levine, Thomas Merton (3 poems), and poems of Han-Shan translated by Gary Snyder]
        

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