{"product_id":"from-the-monastery-to-the-world-the-letters-of-thomas-merton-and-ernesto-cardenal-paperback","title":"From the Monastery to the World: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas Merton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eErnesto Cardenal\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJessie Sandoval\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal were both poets and priests, wholly committed to a life of spiritual contemplation which was never far from the gritty work that lead them to risk life and reputation in order to raise worldwide consciousness concerning issues of social justice and the abuse of human rights. \u003ci\u003eFrom the Monastery to the World\u003c\/i\u003e collects the complete correspondence between these spiritual men and dedicated activists, translated into English for the first time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe letters in this book, written between Merton and Cardenal from 1959-1968, give us fascinating insights into the early spiritual and political awakenings of eventual Sandinista and exponent of liberation theology Ernesto Cardenal, who was then a novice leaving the Trappist Monastery in Kentucky where he first met Merton. While making the long trip home to Nicaragua to build a utopian artist's commune on the Island of Solentiname, Cardenal rubs elbows with some of Latin America's greatest writers and artists of that time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFrom the Monastery to the World\u003c\/i\u003e, Cardenal is still a hungry pupil, years away from becoming the internationally renowned poet-statesman and Nicaraguan Minister of Culture. Here we see the poet and monk Thomas Merton as a wise, patient, and sometimes even humbled mentor, during the years when he was still shaping and collecting the raw materials for such writings as: \u003ci\u003e\"The Way of Chuang Tzu\"\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\"Raids on the Unspeakable\"\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003e\"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander\"\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMerton and Cardenal's correspondence grants readers an audience to conversations between two men deeply connected by their vigorous endeavors toward spiritual freedom, voracious intellectual appetites, and artistic exploration despite the cultural differences, language barriers, and geographic distances which divide them.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eErnesto Cardenal Martínez\u003c\/b\u003e (born January 20, 1925) is a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet and politician. He is a liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived for more than ten years (1965-1977). A member of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, a party he has since left, he was Nicaragua's minister of culture from 1979 to 1987. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA monk who lived in isolation for several years, and one of the most well-known Catholic writers of the twentieth century, \u003cb\u003eThomas Merton\u003c\/b\u003e was a prolific poet, religious writer, and essayist whose diversity of work has rendered a precise definition of his life and an estimation of the significance of his career difficult. Merton was a Trappist, a member of a Roman Catholic brotherhood known for its austere lifestyle and vow of silence in which all conversation is forbidden. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Hass\u003c\/b\u003e served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2007. He lives in California with his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.7 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 11, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52006373884205,"sku":"9781640091559","price":19.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/Vt2cEf74rt9781640091559.webp?v=1776797352","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/from-the-monastery-to-the-world-the-letters-of-thomas-merton-and-ernesto-cardenal-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}