The External Combustion Engine

Download or read book The External Combustion Engine written by Michael Ives and published by Futurepoem. This book was released on 2005 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "Michael Ives's cunningly quarried prose plinths are stippled with the comedy and cruelty of Marcel Duchamp's and Raymond Roussel's wildest inventions. Move over, machines celibataires THE EXTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE has arrived, and it's hummin' " John Ashbery. "These narratives are intensely, wildly logical, sensual, humorous, transgressive catapults into the particulars of an exquisite knowledge for which you can't know you are being prepared. The high-wire pleasures and exhilarations of reading are happily reawakened by this brilliant, surprising book" Joan Retallack."