Table of Contents
Preface Henri Michaux, the Poet of Supreme Solipsism ix
Some Specifics About Fifty-Nine Years of Existence, by H.M xv
A Certain Plume
Part 1
I A Peaceable Man 5
II Plume at the Restaurant 7
III Plume Travels 13
IV In the Apartments of the Queen 17
V The Night of the Bulgarians 23
VI Plume's Vision 33
VII Plume's Finger Was Aching 35
VIII The Yanking Off of Heads 39
IX A Mother of Nine Children! 45
X First Death of Plume 49
XI In Vienna, Second Death of Plume 55
Part 2
XII The Portrait of A 61
XIII Buddha 79
XIV Rupture 81
XV A Singular Thief 83
XVI The Drama of the Constructors 85
Part 3
XVII The Night of Impediments 105
XVIII The Night of Disappearances 109
XIX Confidence 113
XX Birth 115
XXI Moore's Dream 119
XXII Enigma 121
XXIII The Oorooboos 123
Part 4
XXIV Death Song 127
XXV Pate 129
XXVI Movements of Interior Being 143
XXVII Nature 147
XXVIII The Room 151
Part 5
XXIX In the Night 157
XXX At Rest in Misfortune 159
XXXI My Blood 161
XXXII She, the Love Reft from Me 163
XXXIII The Young Budapest Girl 165
XXXIV On the Path of Death 167
Appendix
From Plume, preceded Faraway Within (1938)
Plume in Casablanca 171
The Guest of Honor at the Bren Club 175
Plume on the Ceiling 179
Plume and the Legless Cripples 183
Postface 185
Notes to Poems 197
Translator's Afterword 203