Not Knowing

Not Knowing is a collaboration of four poets and three fine art photographers with poetry by Brother Paul Quenon, Andrew/Sunfrog Smith, J. M. White and Ron Whitehead and fine art images from Brother Paul Quenon, Jinn Bug and Lenny Foster. Each poem is matched with a fine art image. The four poets met at Thomas Merton's hermitage at the Abbey of Gethsemani in rural Kentucky and compiled the poems on Merton's desk with each poet contributing a dozen poems all themed around the idea of the importance of the silent state of nonconceptual realization. Brother Paul Quenon studied with Thomas Merton for over ten year and was his assistant at the Abbey, Ron Whitehead is internationally know for his poetry and for organizing massive poetry events around the world, Andrew/Sunfrog is a prolific poet and writer teaching in the English Department of Tennessee Technological University and J. M. White has fourteen books in print and has been a student of Tibetan Buddhism and Native American cultures for the past half century. Brother Paul is also a fine art photographer who has been documenting the contemplative life at the Trappist monastery, Lenny Foster owns and operates Gallery One Forty Four in St. Augustine Florida, he has five books that document his fine art images, and Jinn Bug is widely published as both a fine art photographer and a poet.