HENRI MICHAUX - SELECTED WRITINGS

Bonkers. And I say that having a very high tolerance for the bizarre. The narrator of these prose-poems is often explicitly in a fever or traveling in invented lands. If there can be said to be a goal to the work (debatable), it is to fold journeys outside the human experience back in. It’s the kind of thing that makes a little more sense during a plague. Here’s me reading “The Executioner” while sheltering in place. I’d like to shout out New Directions for this bilingual edition that has allowed me to learn some French along the way. Read, April 2020.