Fr. Tamás offers to translate some of Merton's poems into Hungarian.
Fr. Tamás Tüz writes from St. Edward Church in San Diego, California. He was a poet born in Hungary. He spent time in a Russian concentration camp during the Second World War. After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, he came first to Canada and then to the United States. At the time of writing to Merton, he had published four books of poetry.
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1966/07/05 |
TLS to Merton |
More than ten years ago I read two of your poems in Hungarian in the only Catholic Hungarian |
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1966/07/14 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for your kind letter of July 5th. I am glad you find my poems interesting enough |
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