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The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be : Prose Prayers and Cheerful Chants against the Dark /
"Proems, taut tales, small stories with rhythm and blues and grace and bruise and laughter between the lines. Brian Doyle's The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be is a book of cadenced notes on the swirl of miracle and the holy of attentiveness; a book about children and birds, love and grief...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Collegeville, Minnesota :
Liturgical Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Acknowledgments. -- |t That's the kind of brave you wanted to be -- |t Astigmata -- |t Holy Thursday -- |t Your theatrical training -- |t Poem celebrating the tiny metal flag-holding widget in the shadows on the stage of the lovely old wooden Lincoln Theater in pastoral Mount Vernon, Washington -- |t The requisite darkness -- |t The song sparrow -- |t Goofing the angel -- |t Poem for my friend Louis -- |t Sweeney's -- |t Seamus -- |t At marine park by Flatbush Avenue, August 1974 -- |t A Chicago story -- |t A bride with brass -- |t Poem on our 28th wedding anniversary -- |t Summer camp -- |t Flew -- |t Down by Fulton Fish Market. -- |t The morning bus on Halsted Street -- |t Lily -- |t Poem for Father's Day -- |t Poem for the wooden shutters and little mesh grilles in old confessional booths -- |t Rules for being an altar boy at Saint John Vianney Parish for the liturgical year 1964 -- |t Such delicious absence -- |t Learning owl -- |t Poem in which I am sitting at the Sullivan Square Station on the Orange Line in Boston staring at the old Schrafft's Candy Factory, and contemplating the rubble and smash of an affair with a young lady that has slumped from bad to worse to epically awful, and realizing that even as I am idly pondering the detritus of this terrible affair I am much more interested in the history of the old candy factory than I am in the young lady, which probably explains, very well indeed, why the affair is disastrous, as I am not in love with her at all in the least, which I realize just as the train arrives -- |t Warming up -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t The tender next minute -- |t What people gave me one evening in rural coastal Oregon after I told them stories in a lovely tiny library -- |t Poem for the tall man who interrupted me last night during a reading to say that he didn't much care for what I was reading and could I read my better stuff? -- |t Poem in which my wife spoons her mother's ashes from a soulless metal box to the beloved old blue cookie jar -- |t Once in a while we should say what is -- |t In the sacristy just before the dawn mass -- |t Pop -- |t The Usual Perfect Mask -- |t Poem for My Friend Lee -- |t Basketball Dads -- |t Poem for My Friend John Roscoe -- |t A Tenderness in the World. -- |t Ten Thousand smiles -- |t Poem in which Ray Davies and Dave Davies huddle at the top of the staircase at their home in Muswell Hill in London listening to their aunts -- |t Tyee -- |t Poem for an editor -- |t Near Otis, Oregon -- |t Spectacle -- |t Poem for a guy I knew in college who was not actually my friend -- |t Here's what I think when I think about that -- |t Their raptorish privacy -- |t The tree surgeon talks about good wood -- |t The hurling match -- |t Miraculum -- |t Just now right now -- |t How to dress for your wedding -- |t What we think we forget -- |t The western yellowjacket : a note -- |t The peach pie -- |t The things we say when we have nothing to say -- |t Poem in which four men, after hauling flowers from a church after a funeral, discuss poetics -- |t The most arrogant knife -- |t Poem for a quiet lady at Saint Patrick's Church in Oregon -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Poem for a friend to whom I wrote every week -- |t Swagger -- |t The best rebounder I ever had -- |t Questions I was asked today by sixth-graders -- |t Yes -- |t Finally is a lot futher away than sick ever expected -- |t Poem in which Dave Kingman hits a home run that is amazingly still traveling 36 years later -- |t Skiffling shuffling skittering scuffling -- |t Best day ever -- |t The first layer of favorite -- |t Holy and fearsome -- |t Owls are the bears of the sky -- |t Whatever it is you think you are chasing, you just ran away from it -- |t A shy expedition -- |t Could there be a badger Jesus? -- |t The antipodean comma -- |t And then there is this -- |t Cards that are good for scraping ice off your car -- Poem in which a love letter floats over western South Dakota -- |t Nailed by wonder -- |t The slight light -- |t A swirl of affectionate air -- |t A poem for literature teacher Beth Morgan of Lassiter High in Georgia -- |t Poem for Dave McIrvin -- |t How can you write a poem if you are an essayist? -- |t After -- |t Seanchai -- |t The tale you did not know you needed to know. |
| 520 | |a "Proems, taut tales, small stories with rhythm and blues and grace and bruise and laughter between the lines. Brian Doyle's The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be is a book of cadenced notes on the swirl of miracle and the holy of attentiveness; a book about children and birds, love and grief and everything alive, which is to say all prayers. Brian Doyle's uncategorizable form is the brief story dressed like a poem but with the loose lyricism and verve of an essay. Here are chants and litanies, like gentle songs to the sacrament of every moment"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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