"Perhaps the greatest testament of personal devotion published in this century." The New York Times
A powerful journal of poems and spiritual meditations recorded over several decades by a universally known and admired peacemaker.A dramatic account of spiritual struggle, Markings has inspired hundreds of thousands of readers since it was first published in 1964.

Markings is distinctive, as W.H. Auden remarks in his foreword, as a record of "the attempt by a professional man of action to unite in one life the via activa and the via...