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The External
Combustion Engine
Michael Ives
Available January 2005
Official Pub. Date: May 1, 2005
Paperback Poetry/Prose
0-9716800-4-3
136 Pages, 6 X 8
$14.00 U.S.
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"Michael Ives' cunningly quarried prose plinths are stippled with
the comedy and cruelty of Marcel Duchamp’s and Raymond Roussel’s
wildest inventions. Move over, machines célibataires—The
External Combustion Engine has arrived, and it's hummin'!"
—John
Ashbery
"The motoric energy of Michael Ives' inspections is what first caught
me: not just the narrative energy but the urgency of breath and its deeper,
darker sources. All systems were being used to inspect—to investigate.
He notices and connects. The brilliance of music is around these texts
of his, driving rich prose discourse through the narrow gate of song."
—Robert Kelly
"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
"The prose in Michael Ives' The External Combustion Engine is written
to the dimensions of fable, with the compression of a well-crafted dream,
fueled by fricative undulations of imagination and effect, enriched with
more than the standard degree of vividness in particularly American linguistic
superabundance which borders on the grotesque and adores each moment of
it. It is pleasure."
—Heather Ramsdell
Michael Ives is a writer and musician living in the Hudson Valley. His work with the language/performance trio, F’loom, was featured on National Public Radio, on the CBC, and in the anthology of international sound poetry, Homo Sonorus. His poetry and prose has appeared in such magazines as Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Exquisite Corpse, New American Writing, and Sulfur. He teaches at Bard College.