The Dark Night of Resistance

Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, 1971. 1st ed. vi, 181 pages; 22 cm. Contains personal narrative, poetry, and prose. Near fine with tiny damp stain to rear in a slightly crinkled (rear) jacket housed in archival mylar. Hardcover.

Contents: April 1970 -- By night I went out by the back window ... -- The dark night of resistance ... -- Fathers and sons ... -- That the monk and the activist ought to sit down together ... -- Certain occult utterances ... -- Koan and commentary on the preceding -- A brief pause ... -- Now if you will please in this darkness choose your image ... -- A man must be like a blind man ... -- Darkness ... -- Wherein a series of contradictions is pointed out ... -- God leads man step by step ... -- In which the moral of the preceding is discussed -- Clinging to the husk of sense ... -- The understanding should not feed upon visions ... -- The understanding should not feed upon visions continued ... -- Being a suggested beginners' list of visions ... -- And finally a few visions ... -- I am not even sure ... -- It seems expedient ... -- Only a guru would have dared write it ... -- Question: what then is it to remember? -- A penny primer ... -- "Night darkens the soul of man ..." -- Some definitions ... -- Two texts are commended ... -- Let a man ground his joy and love.

Government, Resistance to -- United States. Résistance au gouvernement -- États-Unis. Government, Resistance to. Social conditions Résistance politique -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle. Named Person: Berrigan, Daniel. Berrigan, Daniel. Autobiographies. Autobiographies. Autobiographies. Time: 1960-1980 Geographic: United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980. United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980. États-Unis -- Conditions sociales -- 1960-1980. United States. États Unis d'Amérique -- Conditions sociales -- 1960-1990.