When Brian Doyle died of brain cancer at the age of sixty, he left
behind dozens of books -- fiction and nonfiction, as well as
hundreds of essays -- and a cult-like following who regarded his
writing on spirituality as one of the best-kept secrets of the 21st
century. Though Doyle occasionally wrote about Catholic
spirituality, his writing is more broadly about the religion of
everyday things. He writes with a delightful sense of wonder about
the holiness of small things, and about love in all its forms:
spiritual love, brotherly love, romantic love, friendly love, love
of nature, and even the love of a nine-foot sturgeon. At a time
when our world feels darker than ever, Doyle's essays are a balm
for the tired soul. He finds beauty in the quotidian: the awe of a
child the first time she hears a river, the whiskers a grieving
widow misses seeing in her sink every day -- but through his eyes,
nothing is ordinary. David James Duncan sums up Doyle's
sensibilities best in his introduction to the collection: "Brian
Doyle lived the pleasure of bearing daily witness to the glories
hidden in people, places and creatures of little or no size or
renown, and brought inimitably playful or soaring or aching or
heartfelt language to his tellings." In a time when wonder seems to
be in short supply, Your One Wild and Precious Life, Doyle and
Duncan invite readers to experience it in the most ordinary of
moments, and allow themselves joy in the smallest of things.
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