Back
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.
Brian Doyle is the editor of the University of Portland’s award-winning Portland Magazine, and the author of many books, among them the spiritual essay collections Grace Notes, Leaping: Revelations & Epiphanies, and The Thorny Grace of It: And Other Essays for Imperfect Catholics. Brian’s essays have appeared in U.S. Catholic, First Things, Christian Century, America, The American Scholar, Harper’s and The Atlantic Monthly. He is the author of A Shimmer of Something: Lean Stories of Spiritual Substance and a contributor to Give Us This Day published by Liturgical Press.
