Portraits of Those I Love (Daniel Berrigan Reprint)

The Monk - The Artist - The Aunt - The Essayist - The Woman - The Jesuit - The Mother - Self-Portrait Berrigans Portraits is his first completely biographical work and it is perhaps his most intimate book. Here he speaks candidly of some of the people he has known and admired people of fame and people who will probably never be memorialized or even remembered outside these pages. Here are Thomas Merton Dorothy Day Peter Maurin--guides to the vision that has inspired Berrigans own witness to Christian peace. Here is an unknown woman painter dying of cancer but gifted with uncanny powers of insight. Here are members of Berrigans own family: a tough-minded aunt who found in the currently outmoded pieties of the past a remedy for the terrible day-in-and-day-out of the religious life; his own mother providential foreseeing compassionate. Lastly there is a self-portrait--not in a convex mirror not a picture at an exhibition--of what has been the meaning of these various people and of their influence on him and his work. For me Father Daniel Berrigan is Jesus as a poet. If this be heresy make the most of it. -Kurt Vonnegut Daniel Berrigan is Americas greatest prophet-poet. -- James Carroll Father Daniel Berrigan is an altogether winning and warm intelligence and a man who I think has more than anyone I have ever met the true wide-ranging and simple heart of the Jesuit: zeal compassion understanding and uninhibited religious freedom. Just seeing him restores ones hope in the church. -- Thomas Merton in Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander Daniel Berrigan is an internationally known voice for peace and disarmament. A Jesuit priest award-winning poet and the author of over fifty books he has spoken for peace justice and nuclear disarmament for nearly fifty years. He spent several years in prison for his part in the 1968 Catonsville Nine antiwar action and later acted with the Plowshares Eight. Nominated many times for the Nobel Peace Prize he lives and works in New York City.