Michaux

[ mee-shoh ]

noun

1. Hen·ri [ah, n, -, ree], 1899–1984, French poet and painter, born in Belgium.

Example Sentences

He wrote to me also of César Vallejo and Henri Michaux, Chuang Tzu and Kenneth Rexroth’s translations from the Chinese and Japanese, often starting his letters with quotations.

From Los Angeles Times

Other pieces capture the sights and smells of Harlem, from the food trucks bringing up that “down-home soul food” to Lewis Michaux’s Black nationalist bookstore, which claimed 105,000 volumes.

From Washington Post

Adrien Goetz, one of France’s leading art historians and editor of the Louvre’s Grande Galerie magazine, stared at the ancient black Michaux stone from Babylon, the first object inscribed entirely in cuneiform to arrive in Europe.

From New York Times

Image: NASA/Frank Michaux Boeing says it has fixed the problem and is ready to fly again.

From The Verge

Lewis H. Michaux left preaching to open his Harlem bookstore, the African National Memorial Bookstore, in 1930, and it remained a fixture in the community — and a center of Black politics and intellectual activity — until it closed 44 years later in 1974.

From New York Times