And the Risen Bread

by Berrigan, Daniel; Dear, John

• ISBN13: 9780823218226
• ISBN10: 0823218228
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-05-01
• Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr

Summary

And the Risen Bread is a culmination of forty years of poetry by American Jesuit and activist Daniel Berrigan. Beginning with poems written on bucolic themes, the book moves to those dealing with the struggle against war. Included are poems written from courtrooms and jail cells, as well as religious poems which include the doubt and difficulty that arise from the many horrors of our world today.

Author Biography

Daniel Berrigan is author of fourteen volumes of poetry. His first volume of poetry, Time Without Number (1957), whose publication occurred at the suggestion of poet Marianne Moore, was nominated for the National Book Award and awarded the prestigious Lamant Prize for Poetry by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xix
Time Without Number	p. 1
Encounters	p. 19
the World for Wedding Ring	p. 37
No One Walks Waters	p. 55
Love, Love at the End	p. 83
False Gods, Real Men	p. 89
Night Flight to Hanoi	p. 111
Trial Poems	p. 119
Cornell Poems	p. 127
the Dark Night of Resistance	p. 135
America is Hard to Find	p. 141
Prison Poems	p. 147
Uncommon Prayer	p. 177
the Discipline of the Mountam"	p. 191
May All Creatures Live	p. 203
Block Island	p. 245
Hymn to the New Humanity	p. 259
the Mission	p. 265
Stations	p. 279
in Memoriam	p. 291
Homage to Gerard Manley Hopkins	p. 313
Jubilee!	p. 329
Isaiah	p. 347
Plowshares Poems	p. 357
Diary of Sorts	p. 373
Beyond	p. 395
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