A Certain Plume - Henri Michaux India and Radiolarians—these illustrations display Haeckel’s

and Radiolarians—these illustrations display Haeckel’s remarkable artistic skill and understanding of the architecture of organic matter

Like previous issues of the Blank Forms journal

and genre that were a hallmark of the Czech avant-garde

menacing dream of sexual awakening involving a vampire with an insatiable appetite for chicken blood

and hides the bird away – but can death be cheated

A Certain Plume - Henri Michaux India and Radiolarians—these illustrations display Haeckel’sA Certain Plume by Henri Michaux, translated by Richard Sieburth ISBN 9781681372266 220 page paperback from NYRB Poets One of my favorite writers. (Also, Richard Sieburth was one of the first people to encourage my research into forgotten writers, way back in 2007 when I started A Journey Round My Skull.) *** A bilingual edition of the most famous of Henri Michaux's poetry collections, now in a new translation from the French. The figure of Plume