 Henry
Miller
Sextet
ISBN: 978-0-8112-1800-9; Online ordering
Resembling
a musical sextet where no two instruments are the same, but all instruments
blend to form a single sound, Henry Miller’s Sextet combines
six fresh and impromptu pieces of writing originally published as
individual chapbooks by Capra Press: “On Turning Eighty,” “Reflections
on the Death of Mishima,” “First Impressions of Greece,” “The Waters
Reglitterized: The Subject of Water Colors in Some of its More Liquid
Phases,” “Reflections on The Maurizius Case: A Humble Appraisal of
a Great Book,” and “Mother, China and the World Beyond: A Dream in
Which I Die and Find Myself in Devachan (Limbo) Where I Run into
My Mother whom I Hated All My Life.”
Like
your favorite band releasing a six-song EP to keep you salivating
until its next full-length album, Sextet is a finger-snapping
sample of Miller’s clarion-call work, with lots of raucous humor
and jazz.
“The
people that banned words in books didn’t stop people from buying
those books. If you couldn’t buy Henry Miller in the early sixties,
you could go to Paris or England. We used to go to Paris, and everybody
would buy Henry Miller books because they were banned, and everybody
saw them, all the students had them. I don’t believe words can harm
you.”
—John Lennon
“One
of the few honest and uncompromising American writers.”
—Hunter S. Thompson
“Miller
is a writer out of the ordinary, worth more than a single glance;
and after all, he is a completely negative, unconstructive, amoral
writer, a mere Jonah, a passive accepter of evil, a sort of Whitman
among the corpses.”
—George Orwell
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