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Henri Michaux is one of the great visionary European artists of the twentieth century. Before he died in 1984, his writings had been translated from the French into more than half a dozen languages and his paintings displayed at the major art museums of Europe and the United States. He has been compared to Kafka, Swift, Beckett, Klee, and Goya, yet his work defies easy categorization.
Darkness Moves is the first English-language anthology to present the full range of Michaux's talent, including many works that were previously unavailable in English. Here are selections from nearly all of the artist's major writings: his hallucinatory visions, fantastic journeys, fables, portraits of strange people's, the weirdly comic "Plume" narratives, his "exorcism-poems," and the meditative ecstatic poetry nourished by the religions of Asia.
Also represented are his extremely original essays on art, literature, and life. Thirty reproductions of Michaux's paintings give a sample of his visual work, which is as singular and adventurous as his poetry.
- David Ball, himself a poet, brings a great sensitivity to his renderings of Michaux's remarkable French, and his introductions offer a valuable guide to the work presented. Now, for the first time, the English reader can fully explore the haunting verbal and pictorial landscapes of this twentieth-century visionary.
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Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984
October 31, 1997, University of California Press
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in English
0520212290 9780520212299
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Darkness moves: an Henri Michaux anthology, 1927-1984
1994, University of California Press
in English
0520072316 9780520072312
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"The title of his first book of poems notwithstanding, Henri Michaux is fully Henri Michaux in these two little collections."
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