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.<br><br>Includes forty pages of black-and-white drawings.