Wet Engine: Exploring the Mad Wild Miracle of the Heart - Softcover

Doyle, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870716530 ISBN 13: 9780870716539

Publisher: Oregon State University, 2012

Synopsis

Examines the heart as a physical organ - how it is supposed to work, how surgeons try to fix it when it doesn’t - and as a metaphor: the seat of the soul, the power house of the body, the essence of spirituality. Brian Doyle considers the scientific, emotional, literary, philosophical, and spiritual understandings of the heart - from cardiology to courage, from love letters and pop songs to Jesus.

About this title

Review:

"This wonderful book has two heroes: a small boy with a damaged heart, and a surgeon who knows how to repair the damaged hearts of small boys. Such heroes deserve a gifted poet to sing their songs. Brian Doyle is that poet." --Chet Raymo, author of Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God
"Brian Doyle's spirit is catching: it will catch you up, and soon you will have caught on to everything he feels and ruminates over and marvels at, and you will comprehend what poetry is and does. And you will know from the throb of The Wet Engine, this unique and beautiful book written in celestial prose, that Brian Doyle is as glorious a poet as he is a father; and vice versa." --Cynthia Ozick, author of The Shawl

About the Author:

Brian Doyle is the author of twelve books, including the novel "Mink River "and "The Grail," his account of a year in a vineyard in Oregon. He edits "Portland Magazine "at the University of Portland. "

About this edition

• Publisher: Oregon State University
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0870716530
• ISBN 13: 9780870716539
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128