MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1967-1968, 1973
Volume: 34 item(s); 51 pg(s)
Scope and Content
Louis Zukofsky and Thomas Merton exchange feedback about each other's work and discuss some of their mutual physical ailments, like bursitis.
Biography
Louis Zukofsky was a poet and professor of English, who was born in New York, where he also spent his professional life. His poetry of the 1930's was considered part of the "objectivist" movement and associated with the work of William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound. Later, he was rediscovered by the Black Mountain poets. He is known for the collection of poems, entitled "A", which spanned his whole writing career from the 1920's to the 1970's and was published the year of his death. (Source: "Zukofsky, Louis." World Authors. 1975. Online. H.W. Wilson. Bellarmine University Library, Louisville, KY. 4 Oct. 2006. ‹http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com›.)
Usage Guidelines and Restrictions
Related Information and Links
See also published letters from Merton to Zukofsky in The Courage for Truth, pp. 290-296; see also contributions to Monks Pond, Volume 2.
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Series List
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
Container List
| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1967/02/21 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | Happily my publisher calls my attention to your review of ALL and I must thank you for it in itself | |
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| | 1967/02/21 (#02) | HLS[x][d] | to Merton | Happily only publisher calls my attention to your review of ALL and I must thank you for it | |
| [draft of letter handwritten on four small sheets] |
| | 1967/02/27 | HLS[x] | from Merton | It was very good to get your letter. Don't be distressed by this stationery- only a bursitis | |
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| | 1967/03/02 | HLS | to Merton | Ah me, bursitis that disabling ache among others of that kind we're familiar with. Celia and I hope | |
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| | 1967/03/11 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter of nine days ago. The operation seems to have helped and has perhaps | Yes |
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| | 1967/03/11 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter of nine days ago. The operation seems to have helped and has perhaps | Yes |
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| | 1967/03/11 (#03) | other[x] | by Merton | Children the time of angry Fathers [-] Is torn off the calendar [-] They turn to shadows | |
| [Merton encloses his poem "A Round and a Hope for Smithgirls" with handwritten corrections] |
| | 1967/03/16 | HLS | to Merton | I'm happy that you've settled simply on first names. We hope <u>de ilbow</u>, as Kate said, is | |
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| | 1967/03/29 | HLS | to Merton | Dear Tom or Fra Louis, or shall it be either as the (my) instant lets me speak. Celia's thanks | |
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| | 1967/04/15 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your wonderful appreciative letter of couple weeks back. And maybe you find Conjectures | Yes |
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| | 1967/04/15 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your wonderful appreciative letter of couple weeks back. And maybe you find Conjectures | Yes |
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| | 1967/04/20 | HLS | to Merton | The achers here with the acher there acres of sunlight for cure to settle the publisher next week. | |
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| | 1967/05/05 | TL[c] | from Merton | Most grateful for yours of April 20th and for the parens in the Smithgirl poem. You are certainly | Yes |
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| | 1967/05/08 | TLS | to Merton | I'm so happy that my ex-critical eye was not an intrusion, its only value your <u>own</u> changes | |
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| | 1967/06/23 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I don't know if I answered your last letter yet: your suggestion for the end of Smithgirls is fine | Yes |
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| | 1967/06/23 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | I don't know if I answered your last letter yet: your suggestion for the end of Smithgirls is fine | Yes |
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| | 1967/07/05 | HLS | to Merton | Briefly -- or under the weather, both of us. But thanks for [indecipherable word..] of Smithgirls | |
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| | 1967/07/18 | TL[c] | from Merton | The main purpose of my last letter was to thank you for "<u>It Was</u>" and so I didn't mention it! | Yes |
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| | 1967/08/03 | HLS | to Merton | As you say East, West - "though is it over"? Whatever rare momentary cheer, this world offers | |
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| | 1967/08/30 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Shouts from Kentucky. Reading A 18. Two Poetries sent one from Davenport in Lexington and one | Yes |
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| | 1967/08/30 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Shouts from Kentucky. Reading A 18. Two Poetries sent one from Davenport in Lexington and one | Yes |
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| | 1967/09/02 | HLS | to Merton | Too early for flu, or better never - at least those are our wishes for you. Tho we know | |
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| | 1967/11/08 | HLS | to Merton | Guy Davenport calls my attention to "Day of a Stranger," which, if I kept up with the magazines, | |
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| | 1967/12/25? | HCS | to Merton | no wish should [-] hunt, Job watched [-] weather to wish [-] alike all <u>Noël:</u> a glimpse of "A" | |
| [Christmas card with handwritten poem by Zukofsky - "a glimpse of 'A'-21"] |
| | 1967/12/28 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the letter and for the little bit of A 21 on the card-- very moving. And now what do you | Yes |
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| | 1967/12/28 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the letter and for the little bit of A 21 on the card-- very moving. And now what do you | Yes |
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| | 1968/01/02 | HLS | to Merton | Thanks for <u>The Cell</u> - clear! I must be "old fashioned" -- in my leanings to statement. | |
| [misdated by Zukofsky as 1967] |
| | 1968/02/02 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I know what you mean about the bronchial bug. I've had a wicked January, three or four days very | Yes |
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| | 1968/02/02 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | I know what you mean about the bronchial bug. I've had a wicked January, three or four days very | Yes |
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| | 1968/03/21 | HPCS | to Merton | Just to say thanks for Monks Pond I - and aims and ends to it - to wit your editorial note | |
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| | 1970/07/06 | TLS[x] | from Griffin, John Howard | As you may know, I am preparing the authorized biography of Thomas Merton. | |
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| | 1970/07/09 | HLS[x] | to Griffin, John Howard | To answer your of the 6th: I shall always regret not meeting Tom Merton, I had hoped so much we | |
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| | 1973/11/30 | TLS | from Center to Zukofsky, Louis | Mr. Victor Kramer at Georgia State University has requested permission to look at your | |
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| | 1973/12/10 | HNS | to Center from Zukofsky, Louis | Thank you for writing. Permission herewithin and Season's Greetings. [-] Louis Zukofsky | |
| [written on the letter send to him and returned to the Merton Center] |
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