About the Book
   “Seed Hope. Flower Peace.”
   Decades after the end of the Vietnam War, and years since the start of the Iraq War, these words by Jesuit priest, poet, peace activist, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Daniel Berrigan still resonate. Prayer for the Morning Headlines: On the Sanctity of Life and Death pairs select Berrigan poems with luminous photographs of cemetery statuary by Adrianna Amari.
   In this beautiful collection, the evocative images combine to form a meditation on the profound impact of the loss of any life, and bear witness to lasting grief, memory, and love.
   As noted historian Howard Zinn states in his eloquent introduction, “...it was in Baltimore that Adrianna Amari took her extraordinary photographs of sculptures scattered through the city. It is all there, as in Berrigan’s poems—life and death, the prayer that comes with commitment, the hope that comes with resistance, the visions of a world where peace and justice prevail.”
   At times tranquil, at times dramatic, the words and images in Prayer for the Morning Headlines always implore readers to love one another and fight war no more.

About the Author
Daniel Berrigan, S.J., is a Jesuit priest, poet, author, teacher, and peace activist. Author of over fifty books, he is the recipient of the Lamont Poetry Award for his poetry and Tony award for his play “Trial of the Catonsville Nine.” He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize many times for his life-long peace efforts, participating in numerous acts of protest and civil disobedience such as those with the Catonsville Nine and Plowshares Eight.

About the Cover
   Designed by Loyola Freshman Amanda Merson, the cover of Prayer for the Morning Headlines depicts Amari's photo that accompanies the title poem.
   Loyola students refined the idea of designing the cover to resemble the frontpage of a newspaper, with typical fonts, rules, and pull quotes (which, in this case, highlight the introduction by Howard Zinn and a wonderful blurb by the late Kurt Vonnegut).
   The text of the frontpage "article" is actually the beginning of Howard Zinn's introduction.

List Price

$29.95

ISBN

978-1-934074-16-9

Specs

Pbk, 124 pp., 8.5x8.5, full color

Project Manager(s)

Kayleigh Clark '09, Regina Lyons '07, Amanda Merson '10, Margo Weiner '07

Cover Design

Amanda Merson