PUBLICATIONS:

Lynn’s publications include books, scholarly articles and poetry. In The Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton was published in 2005. Other select publications include the following:

  • In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton. Lynn R. Szabo, ed. New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2005.

  • "Hiding the Ace of Freedoms: Thomas Merton's Cables to the Ace." The Merton Annual 15 (Winter 2002): 203-221.

  • "Thomas Merton: A Man for our Times." Canadian Theological Review 20 (Fall 2001): 2-15.

  • "The Sound of Sheer Silence: A Study in the Poetics of Thomas Merton." The Merton Annual 13 (2000): 204-13. 

  • "The Mystical Ecology of Merton's Poetics" in Thomas Merton: Monk on the Edge. Ross Labrie and Angus Stuart, eds. Vancouver, BC: The Thomas Merton Society of Canada, 2012.

  •  Szabo, Lynn R. “Thomas Merton’s Divinations for a Twenty-first Century Christian Reader. “ In Christian Thought in the Twenty-first Century. Douglas Shantz, ed. Eugene, OR: Cascade Press, 2012.

  •   Nelson, H., Szabo, L.R. and J. Zimmermann, eds. Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred and the Sublime in Literature and Theory. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2010.  

Lynn has written numerous articles, personal essays, memoirs and book reviews in the genres of non-fiction and creative writing.