
Brian Doyle is the editor of Portland Magazine at the University of Portland, in Oregon. He is the author of nine books of essays, nonfiction, and “proems,” most recently Thirsty for the Joy: Australian & American Voices (onedayhill.com.au).
. . .would begin with an image so startling and lovely and wondrous that you would stop. . .
"MY SON LIAM was born ten years ago. He looked like a cucumber on steroids. He was fat and bald and round as a cucumber on steroids. He looked healthy as a horse. He wasn't. He was missing a chamber in his heart..."