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050 00 PQ2625.I2|bA2 2014
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100 1 Michaux, Henri,|d1899-1984.
240 10 Works.|kSelections.|lEnglish & French.
245 10 Thousand times broken :|bthree books /|cHenri Michaux ;
translated from the French by Gillian Conoley.
250 First City Lights Books edition.
264 1 San Francisco :|bCity Lights Books,|c2014.
264 4 |c℗♭2014.
300 162 pages :|billustrations ;|c22 cm.
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent.
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia.
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier.
500 Poems.
504 Includes bibliographical references.
505 0 Introduction -- Peace in the breaking -- Watchtowers on
targets -- Four hundred men on the cross -- Notes on
translation.
520 "Thousand Times Broken collects three never-before-
translated texts by Henri Michaux. Composed between 1956
and 1959, during Michaux's mescaline experiments, the
texts include 400 Men on the Cross, a contemplation of his
loss of Catholic faith; "Peace in the Breaking," a poem
written under the influence of mescaline; and Watchtowers
on Targets, a singular, automatic collaboration with
surrealist painter Roberto Matta. "To record the ineffable
is Michaux's paradoxical project in these stunning works
from the mid- to late-50s. Central to his oeuvre, to his
life-long effort to come to terms with faith, they radiate
an uncommon immediacy and conviction. Conoley's excellent
selection-combining drawings, asemic writings, poetry, and
prose commentary-offers the variety of perspectives
required to appreciate the true scope of his project, and
her translation keeps the writing-with all its eclectic
vocabulary and dressage pacing-vibrantly alive. This is an
invaluable addition to Michaux's works in English, filling
an important gap with a vivid, vibrant linguistic
performance." - Cole Swensen "The remarkable and singular
Michaux: poet, visual artist, travel writer, novelist,
"all intimately related," as Octavio Paz once noted. In
his quest for the inexpressible, Michaux represents the
ultimate paradox, at once visionary mystic and rationalist,
as he seeks to chart the journey without end. Gillian
Conoley's skilled and vital translations, as well as her
deeply illuminating commentaries on the three
extraordinary volumes collected here, are indeed a
revelation and a gift." - Michael Palmer "In Gillian
Conoley's committed, devoted translation, with her
thoughtful introduction, appear three visionary works from
Henri Michaux. Michaux's turbulent but nuanced struggle
with the cosmic defamiliarization of verbal and visual art
registers risk wherein alphabetical signs become marks or
figures, and figures become signs, become words. Dynamic,
provocative relationships seek and meet exquisite
encounters, a little black angel, the secret of life,
'this tree with fine branches.' Evolving thematic concerns
such as body, spirit, faith and fate sing with an electric
charge." - Norma Cole "Henri Michaux was a poet's poet and
also a poet's artist, yet he was also, as John Ashbery so
beautifully put it, "hardly a painter, hardly even a
writer, but a conscience - the most sensitive substance
yet discovered for registering the fluctuating anguish of
day-to-day, minute-to-minute living." In these three
remarkable works from the late fifties, in which the
activity of inscription inhabits the abstract mark as well
as the signifying word, Michaux "perceived what one
otherwise doesn't perceive, what one hardly suspects if at
all." Now, through Gillian Conoley's impassioned
translation, Anglophone readers can perceive it too." -
Barry Schwabsky, poet and critic for The NationOne of the
most influential French writers and visual artists of the
twentieth century, Henri Michaux was known for his
explorations of perception and consciousness.Gillian
Conoley is the author of seven books of poetry and edits
the long-running journal Volt. "--|cProvided by publisher.
546 In French with English translation on facing pages.
Introduction and notes on translation in English.
650 0 Experimental fiction, French.
650 0 Drawing, French|y20th century.
700 1 Conoley, Gillian,|d1955-|etranslator.
700 12 Michaux, Henri,|d1899-1984.|tPaix dans les brisements.
|lEnglish & French.
700 12 Michaux, Henri,|d1899-1984.|tVigies sur cibles.|lEnglish &
French.
700 12 Michaux, Henri,|d1899-1984.|tQuatre cents hommes en croix.
|lEnglish & French.
907 .b76522581|b04-12-16|c10-02-15
910 OCLC BibNote|bMaster record variable field(s) change: 700
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910 Backstage
910 Hathi Trust report SPM
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