- Mescaline, Physiological effect, Mescal, Hallucinogenic plants
"This book is an exploration. By means of words, signs, drawings. Mescaline, the subject explored." In Miserable Miracle, the great French poet and artist Henri Michaux, a confirmed teetotaler, tells of his life-transforming first encounters with a powerful hallucinogenic drug.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Henri Michaux
- First published
- 1956
- Pages
- 195
- Publisher
- Gallimard, Schoenhofs Foreign Books, City Lights Books
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9782070709793
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