The best of Miller’s chapbooks bound into a single roaring volume.
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 jive-talkin’, 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.â€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 work with the blare of a clarion call, and lots of raucous humor and jazz.