"Few Thomas Merton readers are aware that he created a significant body of visual art: drawings influenced by Asian calligraphy, American Abstract Expressionism, and other artistic traditions. His art has been little seen and only a handful of the pieces have ever been published. In bringing this art to light for the first time, this book opens a new chapter in Merton studies.Angelic Mistakes presents forty of the most telling examples of Merton's art. Each of the pieces is accompanied by an excerpt from Merton's writing on art, some of which have never been published before. The works are visually compelling and a source of rich insights into Merton as an author and man of spirit, as Lipsey shows in his accompanying essays.The book also features a foreword by Paul Pearson, director of the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine College, and president of the International Thomas Merton Society."