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Original Title:	Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
ISBN:	0811203220 (ISBN13: 9780811203227)
Edition Language:	English

Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

Henry Miller

Paperback | Pages: 196 pages

Rating: 4.14 | 1102 Users | 56 Reviews

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One of Henry Miller's most luminous statements of his personal philosophy of life, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, provides a symbolic title for this collection of stories and essays. Many of them have appeared only in foreign magazines while others were printed in small limited editions which have gone out of print.

Miller's genius for comedy is at its best in "Money and How It Gets That Way" -- a tongue-in-cheek parody of "economics" provoked by a postcard from Ezra Pound which asked if he "ever thought about money." His deep concern for the role of the artist in society appears in "An Open Letter to All and Sundry," and in "The Angel is My Watermark" he writes of his own passionate love affair with painting. "The Immorality of Morality" is an eloquent discussion of censorship. Some of the stories, such as "First Love," are autobiographical, and there are portraits of friends, such as "Patchen: Man of Anger and Light," and essays on other writers such as Walt Whitman, Thoreau, Sherwood Anderson and Ionesco.

Taken together, these highly readable pieces reflect the incredible vitality and variety of interests of the writer who extended the frontiers of modern literature with Tropic of Cancer and other great books.

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Title	:	Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
Author	:	Henry Miller
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 196 pages
Published	:	June 17th 1962 by New Directions (first published 1959)
Categories	:	Writing. Essays. Fiction. Classics. Literature

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Ratings: 4.14 From 1102 Users | 56 Reviews

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We were at a wedding at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur last weekend, and couldn't resist getting a book. This is a series of essays collected out of chronological order, but loosely by theme. The first two are fantastic ruminations on no less a topic than the meaning of life - perfect for summer!

The closest thing to a Bible I've ever owned, my copy is dog-eared, stained and well traveled. Miller's genius lies in his philosophies, not in his prose - he's an ideas man, and here his ideas are perhaps at their most focused. It is this text that I turn to when I need to be reminded that life is to be enjoyed, even when it does not happen on my terms.

I deeply adored this book. It's the kind of book that I think when I re-read it, I'll discover new things to love. I want to recommend this book to about 5 completely different people. I want to talk about it. I want to book club it. I want to take it camping and re-read the parts about Walden. I want to find an economist and laugh with them over the essay about money, and how it got that way. With the presidential race, and Brexit it also felt oddly timely. Every generation feels at sea and

I really like Henry Miller's writing - and I really like Henry Miller's view on life. Not the view that is there in the dark hours or that people think they see in his banned stories - but in the exhilaration he feels for action. So, I should have really loved this book, right? But it was real life and not the life he imagined...and not very exhilarating.The best lines come from the introduction...while they're great, this fact isn't a great sign. When you find you can go neither backward nor

A highly enjoyable selection of essays, book reviews, forewords, satire, and Henry Miller just writing. It is not nearly as preoccupied with sex as his novels, and allows us to see different sides of him, including some very powerful statements about humanism, art, society, and other problems. His appreciation of Thoreau is wonderful, although it follows his brief essay about Whitman in which he uses the same distinctive quotation from D.H. Lawrence, which makes for a jarring repetition. Minor

"these highly readable pieces" do represent the vitality and variety of Miller's interests, yes, though as well do they represent his occasional vitriol and meanness of spirit ("To the American woman the male, whether husband, son, or lover, is a creature to be bullied, exploited or traduced"). Several of the more remarked-on pieces here do fall under that charge, including "Money and How it Gets That Way," an unsuccessful attempt at both sardonic humor and sociology in the form of a whisk

Better than what I expected. A lot of these essays are just the ramblings of another beatnik who just can't live unless the rest of the world knows how much of a brooding nonconformist he is. But there are a few really good essays in here that make it worth reading, particularly the title essay.