Heralding the 25th anniversary of the

death of Thomas Merton comes this uniaue

personal portrait of the final decade n me

life of the world-famous and beloved Trap-

pist monk. Like no other book to date. or

any likely to come, Song for Nobody cap-

tures Merton s human spirit in a its

dimensions.

Poet, writer, and intimate friend Ron Seitz

shares in this "remembrance portrait"

many special and heretofore unrecouted

moments when like minds and kindrec

souls met at Monk s Pond on the grounds of

Gethsemani Abbey to dialogue about Life

and all its mystery. It is a loving and honest

tribute to the memory of a "nan who has

had a profound and lasting imooct on the

lives of millions. Seitz draws from persona

journal notes he kept over a ten-year

period to reveal Merton in his most human

and appealing light: sensitive poet/writer:

joyous and open-hearted friend; seiritual

solitary; mystic; teacher; and more.

The Merton who emerges from these

pages may startle, provoke, inspire, renew

...even delight. But above all, to encounter

him for whom the hermitage naa oecome

not an escape from the world but a olace to

share in others suffering and struggle will

surely affirm readers in their own evolving

spiritual quest.

This book is destined to take a special place

in the enormous library of Mertania.