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The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be: Prose Prayers and Cheerful Chants against the Dark

The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be: Prose Prayers and Cheerful Chants against the Dark

by Brian Doyle (Author)

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    Paperback 2016

    $23.37
Synopsis

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.

$23.37

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20+ in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 124
 Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 13 Oct 2016
ISBN 10: 0814646514
ISBN 13: 9780814646519

Media Reviews
Brian Doyle focuses on daily life experiences, allowing familiar stories and ordinary encounters to emerge as genuinely humorous and sad, noble and emotionally rewarding! The poems tug the heart both through story and the simplicity of superb writing. The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be is fresh and thoroughly engaging. An entrancing poetry fest!Bishop Sylvester Ryan, Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Monterey
Brian Doyle is a genius at unveiling the sacramentality of popsicles, rebounds, cedar needles, four year olds, the snap of a baseball bat, scuffling in leaves, owl feathers, attentive doctors, a pint, the chinook, old confessionals, storytelling cops, ratty jerseys. He helps us appreciate the sheer grace and blessing of our own momentous minutiae.Kathy Coffey, Author of When the Saints Came Marching In: Exploring the Frontiers of Grace in America
Author Bio
Brian Doyle (1957-2017) was the longtime editor of the University of Portland's award-winning Portland Magazine. His essays appeared in Harper's,The Atlantic Monthly, U.S. Catholic, First Things, Christian Century, America, and The American Scholar. He was the author of two Liturgical Press books, A Shimmer of Something: Lean Stories of Spiritual Substance and The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be: Prose Prayers and Cheerful Chants against the Dark as well as a contributor to Give Us This Day.