![]() Greater than opium or German philosophy to Coleridge will the scent of her being be to me. ![]() In Storms under the Skin Jane Draycott translates poems and prose-poems from. From now on I will recite sonnets to girls seen in the street, and on the subway I will recognize the signs of desire in her eyes still sleepy with last night’s dream, and in the evening I shall lift a glass and arrange for the ex-partners to embrace after years of bickering: They shall be happy, and I shall cross the little bridge east into the Bronx on 207th Street or the one going north on 215th Street and I will visit her at night, every night. Poet and artist Henri Michaux (1899-1984) was one of the most original and. This selection is from LEspace du Dedans, which collected eight books of prose poems. ![]() But in those days I was reading Rousseau, who put the craziest notions in my head, and I memorized them, bowing to my fate as to an audience clapping its hands after the play. Henri Michaux is one of the great figures in modern French poetry. Nature was a goddess, and I was her slave. That was my way of being, and I couldn’t change it any more than a boy can recover his innocence after the invention of sex. ![]() And I would stand there and let them do it to me. Selected Writings Michaux This selection is from LEspace du Dedans, which collected eight books of prose poems, sketches and free verse. ![]() My enemies used to annoy the hell out of me with their fake cheerfulness, their pathetic need to be liked, or their drive to dominate every conversation. ![]()
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