Signs in Action: Pound/Michaux

Henri Michaux (1899-1984) travelled to the Far East in 1931. His discovery of Chinese painting and calligraphy proved crucial to the exploration of "the world of signs and lines" in his own subsequent poetry and graphic work. In the texts he wrote and drew in his later years, most notably in Ideogrammes en Chine and Par des traits, Michaux returned to this Empire of Signs to pursue his journey into the private ideograms enacted by his visionary eye and hand.Richard Sieburth is the author of 'Signs in Action: Pound/Michaux', published 1987 under ISBN 9780873760577 and ISBN 0873760573.