One Long River of Song by Doyle, Brian -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Dedication Foreword: “A Mystical Project Born of Joy and Desperation” I.: That the Small Is Huge, That the Tiny Is Vast, That Pain Is Part and Parcel of the Gift of Joy, and That This Is Love

Joyas Voladoras A Shrew Tigers Leap Two Hearts The Deceased Eating Dirt The Anchoviad Illuminos

II.: There Was a Kid Who Was and Isn’t But Is

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

III.: We Can Take Off Our Masks, or, If We Can’t Do That, We Can Squawk Through the Holes in Them. A Squawk Is Better Than Nothing

Testimonio Mea Culpa Yes 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

IV.: This Blistering Perfect Terrible World

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

V.: We Are Better Than We Think

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

VI.: I Walked Out So Full of Hope I’m Sure I Spilled Some by the Door

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

Also by Brian Doyle Acknowledgments Copyright Acknowledgments Discover More About the Author

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