Allen Ginsberg called Michaux a genius, and Jorge Luis Borges said
that his work is without equal in the literature of our time. Henri
Michaux (1899-1984) wrote Ideograms in China as an introduction to
Leon Chang's La calligraphie chinoise (1971), a work that now
stands as an important complement to Ezra Pound and Ernest
Fenollosa's classic study, The Chinese Written Character as a
Medium for Poetry. Previously available only as a limited edition,
Ideograms in China is a long, gorgeously illustrated and annotated
prose poem containing a very deep consideration of the world's
oldest living language. Poet Gustaf Sobin's luminous English
version beautifully captures the astounding and strange French
original. For Michaux, the Chinese culture ranked as the world's
richest, a culture grounded in its written language, which bound
China together through three millennia and across its enormous
territories. Ideograms in China presents an oblique history of that
culture through the changing variety and beauty of the ideograms:
Michaux looks into a dozen scripts--from ancient bronze vessels
bearing ku-wen script to running script to standard k'ai-shu
characters--and the poem carries the rhythms of someone discovering
the soul of a civilization in its impression of ink on paper.
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