File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9712, message 104


Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 19:16:22 -0500
From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: Henry Miller and the Academy


>Why is Henry Miller so sparsely taught?   Is his message still so
>subversive that it remains an academic taboo? It seems that everyone has a
>ready-made opinion of him ... at least until they read him.
>
>
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I did a seminar once called "The Writer as Himself." I did Miller, Mailer,
Thompson (Hunter), Whitman, Lawrence, Ginsberg (each of whom has a
character by his name in his "fictive" work). the complications offered by
lyric poetry were slight. WW came out as super existentially hip, and
Miller (we did _all_ the tropics) came off as boring after Cancer.  My
reactions to the above are that Miller is a cool drink of water, but then
he keeps doing the same damn thing. The cure for Miller enthusiasm is to
read more of him.
g




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