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One long river of song notes on wonder

"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...

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Main Author: Doyle, Brian, 1956 November 6-2017 May 27 (Author)
Other Authors: Duncan, David James (writer of foreword.)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Doyle, Brian, > 1956 November 6-2017 May 27.
Authors, American.
Life.
Essays.
Autobiographies.
Anecdotes.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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