Life in the Folds by Henri Michaux and translated by Darren Jackson

This is poetry from France.

Life in the Folds by Henri Michaux translated by Darren Jackson is published by Wakefield Press. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781939663061E12.

Life in the Folds, translated from the French by Darren Jackson, brings Henri Michaux’s French-language work into English through Wakefield Press. Published in 2016, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Michaux’s title is perfectly suited to his world: the human being as crease, nervous system, hallucination, and comic disturbance. What I want from a translated poetry library is not only coverage, but temperament: the chance to meet a mind arranging the world differently. This volume does that work. It gives the reader enough ground to enter, then enough strangeness to keep the encounter from becoming merely informational.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.