Elendes Wunder

Author/Contributor(s):	Michaux, Henri; Paz, Octavio; Varèse, Louise
Publisher:	NYRB Classics
Date:	4/30/2002
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"This book is an exploration. By means of words, signs, drawings. Mescaline, the subject explored." In Miserable Miracle, the great French poet and artist Henri Michaux, a confirmed teetotaler, tells of his life-transforming first encounters with a powerful hallucinogenic drug. At once lacerating and weirdly funny, challenging and Chaplinesque, his book is a breathtaking vision of interior space and a piece of stunning writing wrested from the grip of the unspeakable.

Includes forty pages of black-and-white drawings.