A Highly Refined Hick
HENRI MICHAUX’S is a travel book, a poet’s book, the book of a reluctant misanthrope, as well as being a very salutary book (in both the modern and the archaic senses of the word). Imagine this: a Belgian gentleman goes to India, to China, to Japan, to Malaysia, and at no point does he relinquish his indisputable, irreversible status as
