Description:
Brian Doyle explores the scientific, emotional, literary, philosphical, and spiritual understandings of the heart in a new edition of this unique, remarkable book about his infant son's heart surgery.
Review Quotes: "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