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Portraits of Those I Love

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Priest, poet, and prophet, Father Daniel Berrigan has written over a score of book-narratives of his struggle against the war in Vietnam, verse adaptations of the Psalms and of Dante's Purgatorio, plays, and fables for children. Portraits is his first completely biographical work, and it is perhaps his most intimate book, one in which 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 of these pages. Here are Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, guides to the vision that has inspired Berrigan's own witness to Christian peace. Here is a brother Jesuit, like Berrigan a victim of ecclesiastical power brokers. Here is an unknown woman painter, dying of cancer, but gifted with uncanny powers of insight. Here are members of Berrigan's 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 the author himself guitely assessing where he presently is and what has been the meaning of these various people and of their influence on him and his work.

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New York : Crossroad., 1982

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Paperback, 160 hlm,13x21 cm

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English

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0-8245-0416-X

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