Previously available only as a limited editon, Henri Michaux's <I>Ideograms in China</I> 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 <I>La calligraphie chinoise</I> (1971), a work that now stands as an important complement to Pound and Ernest Fenollosa's classic study, <I>The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry.</I>