And the Risen Bread: Selected and New Poems 1957-97 (Paperback)

by Daniel Berrigan (Author)

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Because of politics, or perhaps religion, Berrigan has never received his due as a poet. Jesuit and activist, he's been writing poems from rectories, safe houses, and jail cells for more than 40 years?14 volumes' worth, much of it collected here. The range of these poems may surprise, going well beyond politics and religion, but Berrigan is about engagement. He's often defiant and in-your-face, but his poetry is tempered, honest, and sure: "no/ horse thieves, poachers,/ informers in our blood! Nicked by his razor Dado/ muttered in the mirror; the blood of Irish kings!/ Mother at the stove, turns up her eyes to heaven." His love of country and church is apparent, as is his occasional frustration with both; it is his engagement with the world, though, that makes him a poet worth our attention. Highly recommended.?Louis McKee, Painted Bride Arts Ctr., Philadelphia
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1961
1967 - Vietnam
8 O'clock Morning Scene
Abel
Abraham
Abraham Heschel: 1
Abraham Heschel: 2
Accounts
Again, The Dying Gull
Air Trip To Boston: 1
Air Trip To Boston: 2
Air Trip To Boston: 3
All Day I Cry Out To You
Almost Everybody Is Dying Here: Only A Few Actually Make It
Ambition
America Is Hard To Find
And He Fed Them All
And What Are We?
The Angel Of Humility
Another Birthday, Imagine!
Apartment 11-l: 1
Apartment 11-l: 2
Apologia
Apostle
April Showers May Come Your Way
Arrival (1967)
Atlas
Autumn, The Streams Are Heavy
Awakening
Because
Beethoven's Violin
The Beginning
Bergamo: Instructions For Going Forth
Beyond
The Bird
Birthday In Quebec: 1
Birthday In Quebec: 2
A Bit Of History
Blind
Block Island
Bombardment
A Buddhist Chants His Epitaph
C.j. Mcnaspy, S.j.
Cardinal
Certain Occult Utterances From The Under Ground And Its Guardian Sphin
Chariot
Chicago (holy Week, 1994)
Child Above A Flower
Children In The Shelter
Christ
Christ And The Church
The Church Is Named Mother Of Fair Love
The Climb
The Clock In The Square Reminds Me Of Certan Lives
Cluny Museum
Cold Comfort Mumbo Jumbo
Come Alive (on The Long Island Railroad)
Come Now, Choose
Compassion
Compassion
Confession
Consolation
Cottage Industry
Courage And Then Some
Creation
Credentials
Dachau Is Now Open For Visitors
David Joyce: 1
David Joyce: 10. Finally, A Song Of Songs
David Joyce: 2
David Joyce: 3
David Joyce: 4
David Joyce: 5
David Joyce: 6
David Joyce: 7
David Joyce: 8
David Joyce: 9
A Day's Work In The Clinic
Death Casts No Light On The Mind
Death Of A Deer
Deathbed
December 2, 1971
A Dialogue: The Good Samaritan
Diary (easter, 1966)
Diary Of Sorts
The Diggers (of Graves In The White House Lawn)
Domestic Weather Report
A Dying Gull On The Beach
Each Day Writes
The Economy Is Bullish
The Effort Of Understanding
Ego Lightly
Eight Days In Sweden
Emulation
The Entrance
Etty Hillesum
The Evangelist
Eve
Events
Everything That Is
Exaltavit Humiles
The Face Of Christ
Facing It
False Gods, Real Men: 1
False Gods, Real Men: 2
False Gods, Real Men: 3
False Gods, Real Men: 4
False Gods, Real Men: 5
False Gods, Real Men: 6
False Gods, Real Men: 7
False Gods, Real Men: 8
Fidelity
Flowers
For Frida
For My Brother, Thomas Berrigan: 1
For My Brother, Thomas Berrigan: 2
For My Brother, Thomas Berrigan: 3
For Philip's Birthday: 1
For Philip's Birthday: 3
For Philip's Birthday: 4
For Philip's Birthday: 5
For Philip's Birthday: 6
For Philip's Birthday: 7
For The Vietnamese Children Who Perished On A Flight From Saigon, Aprh
Fountainhead
The Friday We Name Good
A Friend Brought Low
Georgetown Poems: 1. One Thinks Of Friends In Trouble Elsewhere, Or;
Georgetown Poems: 2. Two A.m. And All's Well
Georgetown Poems: 3. I Hope And Pray This Doesn't Happen To Me
Georgetown Poems: 4. On Being Asked To Debate H. Kissinger
Georgetown Poems: 5. Thank You, Your Point Of View Is Certainly Inter
Georgetown Poems: 6. Wherein Are Explained My Reasons For Going From
Georgetown Poems: 7. The Trouble With Our State
Getting Old
Go Down On Knee
God Speaks
Good Caiphas
The Gospel According To Me: 1. Loneliness (joseph Speaks)
The Gospel According To Me: 2. Said God
The Gospel According To Me: 3. The Coat
The Gospel According To Me: 4. In Sum, Like This
The Gospel According To Me: 5. The Men On The Hill
The Gospel According To Me: 6. Play Safe; His Friends
The Gospel According To Me: 7. Believe
The Gospel According To Me: 8. Good News In A Bad Time
The Gospel According To Me: 9. The Big Wind
Grimsley, Magistrate
Hand In Hand, Heart In Heart
Harm Not The Trees
Having Endured The Dead
He Paused
Hear Ever So Gently
Help Me Someone
Here The Stem Rises
Here We Go Again (1)
Here We Go Again (2)
Heroes
His Cleric's Eye
Holy Week, 1965
Homage To Gerard Manley Hopkins
Homecoming
Homily
Hope
How The Mission Came To Me
Hymn To The New Humanity
I Am Renewed
I Appear On A Television In Denver, Colorado, A Downer
I Encounter Men In The World
I Fear Most, I Think
I Love Your Promise
I Pray
I Sing
I Swear It
I Will Sign My Name
If
Images Of The Carven Wall
In Exaltation Of So Simple A Thing, An Autumn Tree
In Jail We Had A Glimpse Of The Sky
In Prison, As Out, Time Is Of The Essence
In The Children's Ward
Insight
Into His Right Hand
Ironies
Iroquois
Isaiah: 11:1
Isaiah: 11:2
Isaiah: 11:3
Isaiah: 11:4
Isaiah: 11:5
Isaiah: 11:6
Isaiah: 11:7
Isaiah: 11:8
Isaiah: 11:9
Isaiah: 22:1
Isaiah: 22:2
Isaiah: 22:3
Isaiah: 22:4
Isaiah: 22:5
Isaiah: 22:8
Isaiah: 25:6
Isaiah: 25:7
Isaiah: 25:8
Isaiah: 2:1
Isaiah: 2:2
Isaiah: 2:3
Isaiah: 2:4
Isaiah: 2:5
Isaiah: 42:1
Isaiah: 42:2
Isaiah: 42:3
Isaiah: 42:4
Isaiah: 42:5
Isaiah: 42:6
Isaiah: 42:7
Isaiah: 42:8
Isaiah: 9:2
Isaiah: 9:3
Isaiah: 9:4
Isaiah: 9:5
Isaiah: 9:6
Isaiah: 9:7
Its Perfect Heart
Jack St. George, S. J.: 1
Jack St. George, S. J.: 2
Jack St. George, S. J.: 3
Jack St. George, S. J.: 4
Jack St. George, S. J.: 5
Joy: 1
Joy: 2
Keep The Hour
Kinder Times?
Knowledge
Landscapes There Are
Latter Day Prison Poems: 1. My Brother's Battered Bible, Carried Into
Latter Day Prison Poems: 2. Prisoners In Transit
Latter Day Prison Poems: 3. Poverty
Latter Day Prison Poems: 4. Zip Code
Latter Day Prison Poems: 5. A Few Gifts For The Prisoner
Latter Day Prison Poems: 6. Time
Latter Day Prison Poems: 7. Penalties
Latter Day Prison Poems: 8. Your Second Sight
Lazarus
Lazarus: 1
Lazarus: 2
Less Than
Letter
The Levite
Life, So To Speak
The Light Yoke
Lightning Struck Here
Little Hours: 1
Little Hours: 2
Little Hours: 3
Living
Love Is Difference
Making Something
May I To My Lord Hasten
Memories Memories
Men Were The Image
A Mercy, A Healing
Mimi
Miracles
Moment
The Moon
More Like The Sea
My Country 'tis Of Thee
My Father: 1
My Father: 10
My Father: 11
My Father: 12
My Father: 2
My Father: 3
My Father: 5
My Father: 7
My Father: 8
My Mother
My Name
Myth
Night Flight To Hanoi
No One Knows Whether Death, Which Men In Their Fear Call The Greatest
Not Yet
November 20, 1965
O Catholic Church
O Danbury, To What Shall I Compare Thee?
Obit
The Observer
Ode To The Shroud Of Turin (berkeley, '79)
Offering
An Old Woman In Death
On Attaining Fifty-three Years In New York, Alleluia!: 1
On Attaining Fifty-three Years In New York, Alleluia!: 2
On Attaining Fifty-three Years In New York, Alleluia!: 3
On Being A Certain Kind Of Jesuit
Once For All
Our Karma Is Near
Parable
Parable
The Paralytic
Paris Suite: 1. A Beggar, First
Paris Suite: 10. The Newstand
Paris Suite: 11. Immanence
Paris Suite: 12. Air Mail Letter
Paris Suite: 2. Our Lady Of Paris
Paris Suite: 3. Concessions
Paris Suite: 4. Saint Sulpice
Paris Suite: 5. Unfinished Lines
Paris Suite: 6. Paris, You Could Press Wine From Thistles
Paris Suite: 7. A View From A Side Street
Paris Suite: 8. A Thrush In The City
Paris Suite: 9. The City Undertakes A Restoration Of Public Monuments
Patience, Hard Virtue
Pax Christi-spirit Of Life Plowshares: 1. The Court
Pax Christi-spirit Of Life Plowshares: 2. Judge
Pax Christi-spirit Of Life Plowshares: 3. The Verdict
Pax Christi-spirit Of Life Plowshares: 4. The Opposite
Pax Christi-spirit Of Life Plowshares: 5. The Prisoner, The Cave
Pax Christi-spirit Of Life Plowshares: 6. The Gift
Pax Christi-spirit Of Life Plowshares: 7. I Want You Free
Peacemaking Is Hard
A Penny Primer In The Art Of Forgetfulness
Pie In The Sky
The Pilots, Released: 1
The Pilots, Released: 2
A Pittsburgh Beggar Reminds Me Of The Dead Of Hiroshima
The Poem
The Poem Waits On Experience
Pope Paul Goes To Jerusalem; The Mona Lisa And The Pieta Go To New Yor
Prague: Old Woman In The Street
Prayer
Prayer For The Big Morning
Prayer For The Morning Headlines
Prayer From A Picket Line
Prayer From A White Skin
Prayer Of The Vindicated
Prayer On The Six P.m. Subway
A Prayer To The Blessed Trinity
Premonition
Prisoners; The Irish Fast And Die
Prophecy
The Proud Brought Low
The Question
Question And Answer
Rehabilitative Report: We Can Still Laugh
Rescuer, Consoler, Friend
River (to My Mother)
Robert Sullivan: 1
Robert Sullivan: 2
Root
Saint Ann
Saint Francis
Saint John Baptist: 1
Saint John Baptist: 2
Saint Joseph
Saint Matthew, Publican
Saint Peter
Saint Peter Speaks
Salvation
Salvation History
Saviors
The Sea
Seeking
Seminar
September 27, 1971
Sermon On The Mount
The Sermon On The Mount, And The War That Will Not End Forever
Shall These Bones Live
Show Me Your Face, O God
The Sistine Chapel
Skunk
Snowman
So We Pass
Some Sort Of Explanation, Better Than None
Somewhere In The Middle
Somewhere The Equation Breaks Down
Song
Song
Sorrow
Spirit Explained To A Child
St. Stephen
Stars Almost Escape Us
Station Fourteen
Station Nine
Station One
Station Thirteen
A Statue Of The Blessed Virgin, Carved In Ivory
A Statue Of The Blessed Virgin, Carved In Wood
Still I Would Be Your Faithful Servant
Strength
Suburban Prayer
Suppositions
Swords Into Plowshares
Take Your Choice
Talisman
Tell Me
Teresa Of Avila
There Must Be A God
There's An Eighth Day Coming
They Call You Blind Man: Call Their Bluff
This Book
This Crucifix
Thomas Merton: 1. 1969 Opened Like This
Thomas Merton: 2. At The Time Of His Death, Americans Had Mastered
Thomas Merton: 3. Who's Who At The Obsequies
Thomas Merton: 4. Merton
Thomas Merton: 5. The Funeral Oration As Pronounced ...
Those I Love
To A Soldier, Sleeping In An Airport Waiting Room
To Christ Our Lord
To Elizabeth In Prison
To My Mother: 1. Don't Die
To My Mother: 2. Wonder
To My Mother: 3. A New Child Named For You
To My Mother: 4. Unlike
To My Mother: 5. Passage
To My Mother: 6. Honeymoon
To Saint Peter Claver: 1
To Saint Peter Claver: 2
To The Jesuits
To The Plowshares Prisoners With Love
To Wallace Stevens
Tree: October
Trial Poems: 1. Wings
Trial Poems: 2. The Marshal
Trial Poems: 3. John Urey
Trial Poems: 4. Guilty
Trial Poems: 5. A Typical Day In The Municipal Zoo
Trial Poems: 6. Eucharist
Trial Poems: 7. The Boxes Of Paper Ash
Trial Poems: 8. The Verdict
Tulips In The Prison Yard
A Typical 6:00 P.m. In The Fun House
Unborn
Vision
A Visit To The Book Of Kells And A Walk In The Park
A Visit To The Onani Indians
A Visitor Awaits The Prisoner
Waiting
Waterfall
We Are In Love, The Celibates Gravely Say
We Love
We Were Permitted To Meet Together In Prison To Prepare For Trial
We Were Poor Poor Poor
The Well
West Side Story
Which Way Human?
Who Are We, That You Take Note Of Us?
William Stringfellow
Word
The Workers
The Wound
The Writing Of A Poem
Yet Again The Dying Gull And President Ford
You Could Make A Song Of It A Dirge Of It A Heartbreaker Of It
You Finish It: I Can't
You Might Call This A Love Poem
A Young Bird Found Dying, Brought Indoors
Zen Poem
Zen Shovel
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Fordham University Press (January 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0823218228
• ISBN-13: 978-0823218226
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
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• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most overlooked poet of our time, February 7, 2001

By	A. Hogan (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Daniel berrigan, S.J.,poet,priest,confessor,witness has his second volume of collected poems.{the first,published by doubleday in the mid-1970's,is out of print.}It is curious that Berrigan is so overlooked{ignored]. His poetry is superb:supple,elegant,concise. Due to his political{religious}witness, he has been consigned to the fringes{where he is quite comfortable}Unfortunately, this has made his poetry less accessible,which is really too bad. For I believ him to be one of the great poets of our time. This collection begins with his Lamont award collection,TIME WITHOUT NUMBER,up and beyond HOMAGE TO GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, and some uncollected work. From Vietnam to prison, to an elegy for some young children on block island, to an homage to his 10 year old namesake killed,these are vital poems, lush with language,deeply heartfelt,written about life as seen by one of its more ineresting participants . Beautiful,lyrical rich poerty, a feast for the mind and heart. Do yourself a service,read this book,savor these poems,for in many of them you enter a holy realm,a place of peace.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A splendid anthology!, January 6, 2000

By	Kathy O'Connell (Southern New England) - See all my reviews

It's rather sad the mainstream press has overlooked this wonderful collection. Before he became known for his activism in the name of peace, Dan Berrigan was-and still very much is-a poet of grace and enormous insight. This collection gives new readers the gift of being able to trace the progress of his work through more than 40 years.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Poems and slogans, felicities and flaws, March 28, 2001

By A Customer

Daniel Berrigan's early work is his best, written in a time when the poet realized that "poems are made of words, not ideas" and took a craftsmanlike attitude to each syllable.

As has been noted, "Time without Number" was justly lauded by the modernist titan, poet Marianne Moore; and Berrigan's second volume prompted Moore to exclaim, "I read with reverence anything Fr Berrigan writes"; indeed, the poems of "Encounters" are unsurpassed, esp "Trees: October" and "A Statue of the Blessed Virgin Carved in Wood" with its initial line "Wood is noble when it forgets resemblance." There is, too, a poem which ends with the lines "is flown, is fled, is spent / skeleton : element."

Up until about 1964, the poems were poems and not slogans. In fact, Berrigan is perhaps at his best when he pays tribute to other poets, notably Wallace Stevens and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Berrigan's hymns to Hanoi are virtually indistinguishable from the great glut of anti-war matter that was written at this time, and his elegy to Thomas Merton -- though evidently heartfelt -- is slack, sprawling, and aesthetically infirm (the last lines, something about lotus blossoms) are just plain dippy.

In the later work, it helps the reader if she or he is sympathetic to Berrigan's political Weltanschauung, but there are felicities: Berrigan's lean athleticism of language, and way with a pleasing embedded rhyme or calculated dissonance, are knacks which serve him well.

But the priest/poet does, too often, confuse sloganeering with art, and that is a foible we find somewhat difficult to ignore.