Miserable Miracle

This book is an exploration. By means of words signs drawings. Mescaline the subject explored. In <i>Miserable Miracle</i> the great French poet and artist Henri Michaux a confirmed teetotaler tells of his life-transforming first encounters with a powerful hallucinogenic drug. At once lacerating and weirdly funny challenging and Chaplinesque his book is a breathtaking vision of interior space and a piece of stunning writing wrested from the grip of the unspeakable. <p/>Includes forty pages of black-and-white drawings.