Stroke by Stroke (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780976395058)

Henri Michaux (1899-1994) was born in Namur, Belgium. His travels throughout the Americas, Asia, and Africa inspired his first two books, Ecuador and A Barbarian in Asia. In 1948, after the death of his wife, he devoted himself increasingly to his distinctive calligraphic ink drawings. Averse to publicity of any sort, in 1965 he refused the French Grand Prix National des Lettres. Michaux's other works in English translation include Emergences-Resurgences (Skira, 2001), Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology (California, 1997), Tent Posts (Sun and Moon, 1997), and A Barbarian in Asia (New Directions, 1986).

Richard Sieburth's translations include Georg Bu?chner's Lenz, Friedrich Holderlin's Hymns and Fragments, Walter Benjamin's Moscow Diary, G駻ard de Nerval's Selected Writings, Henri Michaux's Emergences/Resurgences, Michel Leiris' Nights as Day, Days as Night, and Gershom Scholem's The Fullness of Time. His English edition of the Nerval won the 2000 PEN/ Book-of-the-Month-Club Translation Prize. His recent translation of Maurice Sceve's D駘ie was a finalist for the PENTranslation Prize and the Weidenfeld Prize.