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Overview
In addition to a full life of social activism Daniel Berrigan has produced an impressive literary corpus amounting to over thirty volumes. Berrigan's life as a writer, a priest and an activist is examined chronologically, beginning with the early years of his life as a priest and theologian, followed by the tumultuous period of the Vietnam War, and finally by Berrigan's defiant challenging of the pronouncements of both church and state regarding the morality of war in general and the deployment of nuclear armaments in particular.
Synopsis
n addition to a full life of social activism Daniel Berrigan has produced an impressive literary corpus amounting to over thirty volumes. Berrigan's life as a writer, a priest and an activist is examined chronologically, beginning with the early years of his life as a priest and theologian, followed by the tumultuous period of the Vietnam War, and finally by Berrigan's defiant challenging of the pronouncements of both church and state regarding the morality of war in general and the deployment of nuclear armaments in particular.
Editorials
Choice
The Writings of Daniel Berrigan guides readers skillfully and gracefully through the work of an important figure of the literary and cultural history of twentieth-century America. While doing so it also raises questions (and suggests some answers) about the moral and spiritual dimensions of literature.— Dewey Weiss Kramer, Book Reviews
The Merton Annual
...quite a good analysis of the major work produced by Berrigan from the 1950s. Labrie's book does an excellent job of demonstrating the many changes in Berrigan's career.— Dewey Weiss Kramer, Book Reviews
English Studies In Canada
This kind of close and sustained analysis is, regrettably, rare.— Dewey Weiss Kramer, Book Reviews
The B.C. Catholic
His evaluation of all Berrigan's poetry is enlightening.— Dewey Weiss Kramer, Book Reviews
The Canadian Review Of American Studies
...an enlightening, well-structured, readable introduction to Father Berrigan as a man of letters, providing sound critical analysis....— Dewey Weiss Kramer, Book Reviews
The Canadian Catholic Review
...by far the most comprehensive and insightful study of Daniel Berrigan to date, and the one that is likely to become the standard....Few poets in the twentieth century have made such powerful and lovely poetry-as-artifact out of a moral-political activism that could have degenerated into arid propaganda but did not, and Labrie documents that achievement with great clarity and sensitivity.— Alan Shucard, Department of English and Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Parkside