Musee Mechanique

by Rodney Koeneke

Musee Mechanique by Rodney Koeneke

Genres: Poetry

92 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Rodney Koeneke is the author of four books of poems--Body & Glass (Wave Books, 2018), Etruria (Wave Books, 2014), Musee Mechanique (BlazeVOX, 2006), and Rouge State (Pavement Saw, 2003)--as well as several chapbooks. He’s also published a historical monograph, Empires of the Mind: I.A. Richards and Basic English in China, 1929-1979 (Stanford University Press, 2004). He lives in Portland, OR.

Reviews

[Mitch · Rating 5 out of 5]

Here it is! The most lyrical of flarfist writings! Koeneke makes these complex tunes in the inner ear of the disordered mind of the reader. If your mind is not disordered, these poems will help. Already there. Twisted in a beautiful way. Wondrous, even. Just the clamways poems alone justify this book's existence. But so much more awaits the reader...

[Kevin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Koeneke is a champion of Flarf and other playful forms of nonsense and mischief. In a weird way, some of these pieces remind me of stuff that I used to write--back in the days when I would imitate Jesse Bernstein at open mics. This book was a lot of fun.