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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Cohen, Marvin".
Marvin Cohen was author of The Self-Devoted Friend (1967), and a contributor to Monks Pond in 1968. He writes from New York.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also contributions to Monks Pond, pp. 185 and 315.
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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1968/04/12 |
TLS to Merton |
James Laughlin said you like my book and also that you would like to see some of my short pieces for |
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sending pieces for Monks Pond - 14 short dialogues and 2 narratives: "Early Lessons in Knowing Your Place..." and "A Previous Time Once..."
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1968/04/16 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Yes, most happy to have seen the short pieces. I am keeping the ones I like best at the moment. |
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likes Cohen's short pieces: "Ideal Business Man", "Fat Man's Unboasting... Flimsy Explanation", "Beast's Skin", "Airy Eccentricity"
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1968/05/06 |
TLS to Merton |
I was delighted to get your April 16th letter saying that you were keeping four of my pieces |
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1968/06/14 |
TLS to Merton |
This enclosed trilogy of poems is by a friend of mine, Ree Dragonette, and I thought you might like |
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sending Ree Dragonette poems for Monks Pond (later published in volume four) / James Laughlin / Cantos manuscript from Ezra Pound
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1968/07/no? |
TLS to Merton |
I'm looking forward to being in your III issue. May I have several copies when it comes out? |
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Ree Dragonette / Roberts Blossom / "War and the Crisis of Language"
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1968/08/19 |
TLS to Merton |
Thanks for returning the rejects of my latest batch of pieces. But there's a problem we have: |
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title "Three Dialogues" for approved pieces for Monks Pond / contributors' notes / Cohen's friend Jonathan Schell - thrilled that Merton quoted him in "War and the Crisis of Language"
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