Thousand Times Broken: Three Books by Henri Michaux and translated by Gillian Conoley

This is poetry from France.

Thousand Times Broken: Three Books by Henri Michaux translated by Gillian Conoley is published by City Lights Publishers. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780872866485E12.

Thousand Times Broken: Three Books, by Henri Michaux and translated by Gillian Conoley from French, brings France French-language poetry into English through Michaux’s restless experiment, psychic breakage, and three-book intensity. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for breakage, hallucination, motion, and the imagination refusing to stay in a single body, not as a fixed lesson about a country or period. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Thousand Times Broken: Three Books belongs in the translated poetry library because it belongs as a French-language work where poetry becomes exploration, disturbance, and nervous travel.

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