Peace in the breaking flood. Translator: Michael Fineberg
Consigny [France]: Embers [Press], 1976. 250 copies. 3 plates (the first two may be a double-spread). [29] pp. Stiff, decorated gray-green paper covers. 23 x 15.8 cm (covers). The binding opens at the narrow edge and reads down the length of the page. Contains "Significance of the drawings" (under mescaline), "Concerning 'Peace in the breaking flood'," and the title poem, which originally appeared in the collection "Moments," in1973, as "Paix dans les brisements." Michaux's most famous book in the US may be Miserable Miracle, about mescaline. Several small nicks in the overlapping edges of the covers, visible in the scan; otherwise, a nice, clean copy. Item #22732
Price: $95.00