![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I also enjoy the en face translation with the French on the left page and the English on the right page, the reader can be a full partner in the translation … or at least, one can presume to be one. Unassuming white, black, and gray tone covers 5×8 inches, and less than an inch thick this is the measure of a book that you can carry around, one thumb in the spine, until the pages come unglued. New Directions Paperbooks are the perfect size for my poetry reading habits. Ball can be more accurate and more plain spoken, but I still prefer Richard Ellmann’s Selected Writings: The Space Within (New Directions, 1968). of California P, 1994) provides a wide selection, including excerpts from the mescaline chronicles and a couple of notes on ideograms and art. ![]() If you are new to Henri Michaux, two translations of selected writings are readily available. Michaux: a writer I have tried to dislike–self-absorbed, self-fascinated, tripping on mescaline, driven to the semi-silence of the sign, flippant, sliding in and out of mockery, in and out of savage honesty, cloud writer of seamless syntax, a shape shifter, flight straight out of costume, writing the human nude. ![]()
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