Joyas Voladoras

Revisiting an ode to the heart by one of our best-loved writers

Joyas Voladoras - The American Scholar Skip to content Tuning Up Joyas Voladoras Revisiting an ode to the heart by one of our best-loved writers By Brian Doyle | June 12, 2012 Andrew E. Russell/Flickr Since this short essay by Brian Doyle was published in the Scholar 15 years ago, it has been read hundreds of thousands of times on our website and often borrowed for classroom use. It is the lead piece in a just-published collection of Brian’s essays called One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder. Brian died at the age of 60 in 2017. Listen to a narrated version of this essay: Consider the hummi

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