One long river of song : notes on wonder
by Doyle, Brian, 1956 November 6-2017 May 27 (Author)
Summary
"When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left behind a cult-like following of devoted readers who regard his writing as one of the best-kept secrets of the twenty-first century. Doyle writes with a delightful sense of wonder about the sanctity of everyday... Full description
- Joyus voladoras
- A shrew
- Tigers
- Leap
- Two hearts
- The deceased
- Eating dirt
- The anchoviad
- Illuminos
- Times tables
- My devils
- We did
- The sea
- Catch
- The meteorites
- First kiss
- [Silence]
- The final frontier
- Jones Beach
- The wonder of the look on her face
- The old typewriter in the basement
- The old Methodist church on Vashon Island
- Testimonio
- Mea culpa
- Brian Doyle interviews Brian Doyle
- Pants : a note
- 20 things the dog ate
- The Daoine sídhe
- Angeline
- The way we do not say what we mean when we say what we say
- On not "beating" cancer
- The hawk
- The praying mantis moment
- Heartchitecture
- The greatest nature essay ever
- The creature beyond the mountains
- Hoop
- Our daily murder
- Because it's hard
- Irreconcilable dissonance
- Lost Dog Creek
- Raptorous
- An leabharlann
- The bullet
- Fishering
- Tyee
- Everyone thinks that awful comes by itself, but it doesn't
- The Four Gospels
- God
- Clairtonica Street
- Dawn and Mary
- His last game
- Memorial Day
- 100th Street
- God again
- Beer with Peter
- The lair
- A song for nurses
- Cool things
- Address unknown
- Hawk words
- Bird to bird
- To the beach
- Chessay
- Lines hatched on the back porch of Eudora Welty's House in Jackson, Mississippi
- Joey's doll's other arm
- The room in the firehouse
- Selections from letters and comments on my writing
- Billy Blake's trial
- On All Souls Day
- Two anesthesiologists
- Joey
- A prayer for you and yours
- His listening
- His weirdness
- The tender next minute
- His holiness the Dalai Lama, manifestation of Chenrezig, bodhisattva of compassion, stops the car along the road to watch children play soccer
- Two on two
- What were once pebbles are now cliffs
- Last prayer.