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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments.
- That's the kind of brave you wanted to be
- Astigmata
- Holy Thursday
- Your theatrical training
- 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
- The requisite darkness
- The song sparrow
- Goofing the angel
- Poem for my friend Louis
- Sweeney's
- Seamus
- At marine park by Flatbush Avenue, August 1974
- A Chicago story
- A bride with brass
- Poem on our 28th wedding anniversary
- Summer camp
- Flew
- Down by Fulton Fish Market.
- The morning bus on Halsted Street
- Lily
- Poem for Father's Day
- Poem for the wooden shutters and little mesh grilles in old confessional booths
- Rules for being an altar boy at Saint John Vianney Parish for the liturgical year 1964
- Such delicious absence
- Learning owl
- 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
- Warming up
- The tender next minute
- What people gave me one evening in rural coastal Oregon after I told them stories in a lovely tiny library
- 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?
- Poem in which my wife spoons her mother's ashes from a soulless metal box to the beloved old blue cookie jar
- Once in a while we should say what is
- In the sacristy just before the dawn mass
- Pop
- The Usual Perfect Mask
- Poem for My Friend Lee
- Basketball Dads
- Poem for My Friend John Roscoe
- A Tenderness in the World.
- Ten Thousand smiles
- 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
- Tyee
- Poem for an editor
- Near Otis, Oregon
- Spectacle
- Poem for a guy I knew in college who was not actually my friend
- Here's what I think when I think about that
- Their raptorish privacy
- The tree surgeon talks about good wood
- The hurling match
- Miraculum
- Just now right now
- How to dress for your wedding
- What we think we forget
- The western yellowjacket : a note
- The peach pie
- The things we say when we have nothing to say
- Poem in which four men, after hauling flowers from a church after a funeral, discuss poetics
- The most arrogant knife
- Poem for a quiet lady at Saint Patrick's Church in Oregon
- Poem for a friend to whom I wrote every week
- Swagger
- The best rebounder I ever had
- Questions I was asked today by sixth-graders
- Yes
- Finally is a lot futher away than sick ever expected
- Poem in which Dave Kingman hits a home run that is amazingly still traveling 36 years later
- Skiffling shuffling skittering scuffling
- Best day ever
- The first layer of favorite
- Holy and fearsome
- Owls are the bears of the sky
- Whatever it is you think you are chasing, you just ran away from it
- A shy expedition
- Could there be a badger Jesus?
- The antipodean comma
- And then there is this
- Cards that are good for scraping ice off your car
- Poem in which a love letter floats over western South Dakota
- Nailed by wonder
- The slight light
- A swirl of affectionate air
- A poem for literature teacher Beth Morgan of Lassiter High in Georgia
- Poem for Dave McIrvin
- How can you write a poem if you are an essayist?
- After
- Seanchai
- The tale you did not know you needed to know.