{"product_id":"on-henry-miller-or-how-to-be-an-anarchist-9780691166872","title":"On Henry Miller: Or, How to Be an Anarchist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn engaging invitation to rediscover Henry Miller--and to learn how his anarchist sensibility can help us escape \"the air-conditioned nightmare\" of the modern world\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe American writer Henry Miller's critical reputation--if not his popular readership--has been in eclipse at least since Kate Millett's blistering critique in \u003ci\u003eSexual Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, her landmark 1970 study of misogyny in literature and art. Even a Miller fan like the acclaimed Scottish writer John Burnside finds Miller's \"sex books\"--including \u003ci\u003eThe Rosy Crucifixion\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTropic of Cancer\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTropic of Capricorn\u003c\/i\u003e--\"boring and embarrassing.\" But Burnside says that Miller's notorious image as a \"pornographer and woman hater\" has hidden his vital, true importance--his anarchist sensibility and the way it shows us how, by fleeing from conformity of all kinds, we may be able to save ourselves from the \"air-conditioned nightmare\" of the modern world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMiller wrote that \"there is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy,\" and in this short, engaging, and personal book, Burnside shows how Miller teaches us to become less adapted to the world, to resist a life sentence to the prison of social, intellectual, emotional, and material conditioning. Exploring the full range of Miller's work, and giving special attention to \u003ci\u003eThe Air-Conditioned Nightmare\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Colossus of Maroussi\u003c\/i\u003e, Burnside shows how, with humor and wisdom, Miller illuminates the misunderstood tradition of anarchist thought. Along the way, Burnside reflects on Rimbaud's enormous influence on Miller, as well as on how Rimbaud and Miller have influenced his own writing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn unconventional and appealing account of an unjustly neglected writer, \u003ci\u003eOn Henry Miller\u003c\/i\u003e restores to us a figure whose searing criticism of the modern world has never been more relevant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Burnside\u003c\/b\u003e (1955-2024) was a poet, novelist, and memoirist whose books included \u003ci\u003eThe Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton), \u003ci\u003eStill Life with Feeding Snak\u003c\/i\u003ee, and \u003ci\u003eAshland \u0026amp; Vine\u003c\/i\u003e. He won many awards for his poetry, including the T. S. Eliot, Forward, Whitbread, and Geoffrey Faber Memorial prizes. His work appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and he wrote a regular nature column for the \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e. He was professor of English at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844952264978,"sku":"9780691166872","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9e169269-6f61-46b8-8c31-a1aceda3b954.jpg?v=1737337436","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/on-henry-miller-or-how-to-be-an-anarchist-9780691166872","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}