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Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
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Stand Still Like the Hummingbird Paperback - 1962

by Henry Miller


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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
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 196
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1962-06-17
  • Features Limited Edition
  • ISBN 9780811203227 / 0811203220
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.94 x 5.24 x 0.56 in (20.17 x 13.31 x 1.42 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 62010408
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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