Espace Du Dedans by Henri Michaux

Henri Michaux (1899-1984) was a significant traveler in modern French poetry, not only to the Amazon and the Far East, but also into the weird hinterland of his own inner space, which he has never stopped exploring as a foreign nation in and of itself, and a language to be mastered. He has delved into the realm of mescaline and other substances, fueled by the same explorer's appetite, and his wartime poetry, which was part of a private resistance movement of incredible density and energy, has proclaimed his idea of the poetic act as a type of exorcism. He was one of the most forceful and unsettling of modern French artists due to his voracious desire for new artistic manifestations of himself. If he had any close friends, they are Klee and Pollock, but he was also influenced by Oriental graphic arts.