Poetry and the Vietnam War

 

Daniel Berrigan, Hanoi Poems. Ithaca: Cornell United Religious Work, 1968.
Berrigan, Daniel. 1968. Hanoi poems. [Ithaca]: [Cornell United Religious Work].
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Father Berrigan served as assistant director of Cornell United Religious Work from 1966 to 1970, during which time he played an instrumental role in the national peace movement. This copy is inscribed to the late bookseller Burton Weiss who was a student at Cornell in 1968.

Daniel Berrigan, Night Flight to Hanoi: War Diary with 11 Poems. New York: Macmillan, 1968.
Berrigan, Daniel. 1968. Night flight to Hanoi; war diary with 11 poems. New York: Macmillan.
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Daniel Berrigan and historian and activist Howard Zinn traveled to Hanoi in February 1968 during the Tet Offensive to bring out three American airmen who had been shot down over North Vietnam—the first prisoners of war to be released since the bombing began.  This diary is Berrigan’s account of their trip.

Berrigan, Daniel. Prison Poems. Greensboro, N.C.: Unicorn Press, 1973.
Berrigan, Daniel. 1973. Prison poems. [Greensboro, N.C.]: Unicorn Press.
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Photograph, of Daniel Berrigan used in the publisher’s publicity for Night Flight to Hanoi.
Photograph, of Daniel Berrigan used in the publisher’s publicity for Night Flight to Hanoi.
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Inscribed by Berrigan to Robert A. Wilson.

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Daniel Berrigan, Crime Poems: Trial Poems: Poems. Place of publication not identified: publisher not identified, 1968.

This privately-printed pamphlet presents a selection of Daniel Berrigan’s political poetry.