Thousand Times Broken brings together three extraordinary, previously untranslated books in which Henri Michaux's art and poetry merge in ways never seen before, composing a journey in which we--with the great visionary Michaux as our guide--are invited to hover between reading and looking, between the ineffable and the known, between body and spirit into a realm where it is possible to perceive -what one otherwise doesn't perceive, what one hardly suspects at all.- Composed between 1956-1959, during Michaux's mescaline experiments, all three books engage a dynamic struggle...
Thousand Times Broken brings together three extraordinary, previously untranslated books in which Henri Michaux's art and poetry merge in wa...
Life in the Folds, originally published in French in 1949, is the Belgian-born author and artist Henri Michaux's (1899-1984) most direct exploration of the many forms of suffering, a laboratory of fantastical, destructive energies in which the poet presents his methods for dealing with the world around him. The first two sections offer such items as the Slapping Gun and the Man Sling (in the section -Freedom of Action-) to the scenarios that call for defensive measures such as the -Constellation of Jabs- and the visceral -Blow of Fatigue- (in the section -Apparitions-). Also included...
Life in the Folds, originally published in French in 1949, is the Belgian-born author and artist Henri Michaux's (1899-1984) most direct explor...