Ideograms in China [Paperback]

Previously available only as a limited editon, Henri Michaux's?Ideograms in China?is now available as a New Directions paperback. Peerlessly translated by the American poet Gustaf Sobin, this long, beautifully illustrated and annotated prose poem was originally written as an introduction to Leon Chang's?La calligraphie chinoise?(1971), a work that now stands as an important complement to Pound and Ernest Fenollosa's classic study,?The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry.