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The poems were written during his stint in jail, and to be honest at first I didn't think they were very good. I love him.​As Daniel Berrigan, in a simpler time, had embodied my new priestly ideal, braced by the sacredness of expression itself—Man of the Word—now his relentless pacifist expression both in language and in deed pushed further. Still carrying the memory of those little ones from Hanoi, Daniel Berrigan said for the group, “Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children .

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His family subsequently moved to Syracuse , New York, where the boys grew up attending Catholic grade schools. “How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened . For the rest, I will never forget the man, or what he meant to me. Tet showed the war as the American intelligence failure that it was, although by then my father had, in the secret councils of the Pentagon, long been arguing that further escalations were pointless—arguments he was losing. “It’s too much,” they cried. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise . In addition to his award-winning first book of poems Time without Number , Berrigan’s other collections include Prison Poems (1973); Tulips in the Prison Yard: Selected Poems of Daniel Berrigan (1992); and And the Risen Bread: Selected and New Poems 1957-1997 (1998). From then on, he would be known more for dissidence than for poetry.​As a chaplain at Boston University, I supported the Berrigans in their trials, met them, and became their friend.
But Berrigan kept demanding more.​Tet sparked a savage renewal of U.S. bombing of North Vietnam. After high school, Berrigan applied to the Society of Jesus, the Catholic religious order known as "The Jesuits." Some stood up twice, then sat down. He testified, in his expansive life, to language itself as an opening to transcendence. On the occasion of his 85th birthday, priest/poet/peace activist Daniel Berrigan recites one of his best loved poems “Some.” Following the poem is a brief video tribute to Dan’s brother Philip which features the song “I Had No Right” by Dar Williams. Writing could be an act of worship. Coming across the poetry of Daniel Berrigan, thanks to the publicity surrounding his death, has been one of the delights of new encounter. - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. Berrigan, a member of the Catonsville Nine, was a Jesuit priest who was jailed for destroying government draft records during the Vietnam War, of which he was a fervent protestor. His political activism was a frequent focus of Berrigan’s writing and he also wrote extensively, on biblical texts and theology, often relating these topics to contemporary political and social issues. The exhibition “Daniel Berrigan: Poet, Activist, Priest” will be on view in the Information Room of the Morris Library from October 4 through December 16, 2016 and will feature books and other materials from all periods of Daniel Berrigan’s career. CLICK THE IMAGE TO SEE HOW YOU CAN HELP PROMOTE AND DONATE TO RISE UP TIMES. - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. Eighty thousand North Vietnamese soldiers stormed out of the jungles, wreaking havoc on cities throughout South Vietnam, endangering even the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. There’s a beauty in freshness. I, too, began to wear the black turtleneck sweaters that he favored. ... TOP POEMS.

Daniel Berrigan was born on May 9, 1921 in Virginia , Minnesota , the fifth of six boys to Thomas and Frieda Berrigan. At my family home, on Generals’ Row at Bolling Air Force Base (our next-door neighbor was Curtis LeMay), I was regularly tutored in the tragic necessities of the killing from its onset. My lifelong friendship with Daniel Berrigan, however, had just begun.A reporter’s journey to My Lai and the secrets of the past.​My literary fancy, in truth, had nothing to do with the hard-edged, down-to-earth actualities of Berrigan’s poems. The idea defines me still.​In November of 1965, a Quaker pacifist named Norman Morrison immolated himself outside the Pentagon as a protest against the war.
He was one of those with the guts to get arrested. He and Zinn spent their first night in Hanoi in an underground shelter while U.S. bombs fell from the sky—“under the rain of fire,” as Berrigan later described it. . The exhibition, which is curated by Timothy Murray, Head of Special Collections, is drawn largely from the collection of the important American bookseller and collector Robert A. Wilson who knew Daniel Berrigan and built an extensive collection of the author’s work which now resides in the Special Collections of the University of Delaware Library.© 2019 University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press He and I rarely spoke.​It still could.