Daniel Berrigan Poetry Drama Prose Author:Daniel Berrigan, Michael True (Editor) With classic selections from Daniel Berrigan's many books, essays, and poems, this timeless collection focuses on Berrigan the writer, emphasizing his development as poet, dramatist, and essayist. His writings reveal how Berrigan turns to art in response to social injustice, military madness, and moral indifference. — All the genres in which ... more »Berrigan works are represented: essays, parables, drama, poetry, autobiography, journals, reviews, letters, manifestos, and interviews. The most up-to-date anthology available [1988], it includes the complete text of his play, The Trial of the Catonsville Nine.
According to Berrigan every peacemaker is a poet and, he writes "I'd like to the peace movement to explore peacemaking from a metaphor of healing -- that we are really trying to heal people, heal a culture, heal the Pentagon, and heal wherever we are."
This volume makes the work of one of the most controversial and acclaimed writers of our time accessible to a wide audience, and challenges that audience to respond.« less