Tribute to Henry Miller (a repost)

Aug 30, 2020 14:09

Originally posted by pigshitpoet at Tribute to Henry Miller

One of my old drawings from live model, when I was still feeling passion running through my veins
instead of this face pain

Under the Roofs of Paris ~ a tribute to Henry Miller


Meet the man with the big red plomb..
artist: pigshitpoet

. . . with excerpts from Sexus, Nexus, Plexus and Crazy Cock or... Texas (because it's well hung ! )

"If creativity in it’s basest form is tied to sex, then the artist is subject to the forces of life and exemplary of that which prevails upon any man or woman. The symbolism of seasons of nature in her cycles is a metaphor for transformation, which is the process each artist faces within him/herself to enable them to feel or create anything, as simple as a human smile." ~ dr. π (pi)

Under The Roofs Of Paris

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Originally published under the title of Opus Pistorium,
In 1941, Henry Miller, the author of Tropic of Cancer, was commissioned by a Los Angeles bookseller to write an erotic novel for a dollar a page. "The enterprising Lubovski made five copies of the finished book, titled Opus Pistorum, and made, as Miller suggested, 'a few months' rent from it.' " ~ Neeraja Vinaswathan. Under the Roofs of Paris, one finds Miller's characteristic candor, wit, self-mockery, and celebration of the good life in spite of constant poverty. From Marcelle to Tania, to Alexandra, to Anna, and from the Left Bank to Pigalle, Miller sweeps us up in his odyssey in search of the perfect job on the perfect woman, and the perfect experience from raw sexuality. Under the Roofs of Paris is an erotic romp into the land of sexual obsession to equate and possibly surpass Marquis de Sade, who's name gave rise to the term "sadism". De Sades's works have been seen as exploration of sexual and political freedom, and on the other hand he was a multiple rapist, torturer, and proto-murderer. Justine, de Sade's most famous work, depicts graphically sexual encounters of a poor young girl. Now back to Henry's epistolium. . .

Companion Reader to Opus Pistorium ~ Art and Artist by Otto Rank



Like Rank's "Art and Artist", Miller's Rosie Crucifixion "explores the human urge to create in all its complex aspects, in terms not only of individual works of art but of religion, mythology, and social institutions as well." ~ Ernest Becker

Right-click link to open page in new window:
http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/backlist/030574.htm

Henry Feasts ~ "Under The Roofs of Paris"Regardless of Race Colour or Creed
Henry Miller has brought great pleasure to many an unsuspecting teenager who assumed Tropic of Cancer was as dully asexual as everything else in the classics section. (The next thing you knew, you were hiding out in the bathroom, reading the sentence with the word "cock" in it with near-obsessive disbelief.) Today, I have mixed feelings when it comes to old Hank, especially when the feminist tendencies kick in. Miller's hero is usually a shiftless, faithless scavenger with holes in his pockets and a perpetual hard-on. In the readers' more mainstream works, readers are swept away to a hedonistic, bohemian world where art reigns supreme and the petty details (rent-paying, etc.) are best left to the fat-cat philistines who perpetually get suckered.

Traditionally, it's been a little harder for women to look past Miller's clear misogyny and his characters' complete inability to appreciate women in a non-sexual way. Most of the female characters in Miller's books are either scheming backstabbers who give the narrator blue balls, or "hot filthy bitches," seemingly inexhaustible sources of acrobatic sex. ~ Neeraja Vinaswathan
Right-click link to open page in new window:
http://www.nerve.com/personalessays/vinaswathan/dirtysecret/
Marquis de Sade (1740-1814)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/desade.htm

These are excerpts from the original drawing of "Henry Miller Under the Roofs of Paris"


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Sexus, Nexus, Plexus and Crazy Cock

The Rosy Crucifixion: Sexus, Plexus, Nexus
Henry Miller's Rosy Crucifixion, his second major trilogy, took more than 10 years for the author to complete. Beginning in 1949 with Sexus, a work so controversial all of Paris was abuzz with L'Affaire Miller, (and publisher Maurice Girodias saw himself threatened with jail), following in 1952 with Plexus, and finally concluding with 1959's Nexus, the three works are a dazzling array of scenes, sexual encounters and ideas, covering Miller's final days in NY, his relationship with June Miller and her lover, his take on the arts, his favorite writers, his thoughts, his insights, his days and his nights, finally ending with a glorious farewell to the life he'd known and an anticipation of the life he would lead.

Plexus ~ a network of parts such as nerves or blood vessels. Origin (1675-85) L plect(ere) to plait, twine
Nexus ~ a means of connection; binding; tie or fasten. Origin (1655-65) L nect(ere) to bind, fasten, tie
Sexus ~ a 1949 novel by Henry Miller : )
source: dictionary.com

Plexus ~ Schnellock as Ulric
In Plexus, Miller covers the period in New York after which he left his first wife for June ("Mona"), soon followed by his escape from the Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company and his earnest commitment to become a full-time writer. In the book he dialogues about painting and art with professor and lifelong friend Emil Schnellock under the guise of Plexus character Ulric ~ “If I adored Ulric because of his emulation of the masters, I believe I really revered him for playing the role of 'the failure.' The man knew how to make music of his failings. In fact, he had the wit and the grace to make it seem as though, next to success, the best thing in life is to be a total failure.” ~ Henry Miller on Ulric (Emil Schnellock) in Plexus, p.15. source: RC TORONTO, CANADA (Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company)

Nexus is autobiographical and tells the story of Miller's bizarre second marriage and its development into an extraordinary and legendary menage a trois. In Miller's Books In My Life, he credits Dostoevski's "works in general" as being amongst his 100 most influential books. Fyodor Dostoevski (1821-1881) is of course one of Russia's greatest writers. He is mentioned over a dozen times throughout Nexus... Miller also reminisces about a long visit he once had with a lawyer named John Stymer under the pretext of a business call for his father's tailoring business just an excuse to socialize... Miller remembers the last conversation he had with Stymer: masturbation and prostitutes in discussions around bedding women. Stymer begins the momentum of his one-sided conversation, asking Henry about literature and telling him about his affair with a young woman he describes as a nymphomaniac." source: RC TORONTO, CANADA (Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company)

The End of Sexus ~ famous last lines. . .
"... she whispered, “You’re such a lovely lovely creature,” and she began stroking my fur. “Wait a moment, my darling, and I’ll bring you something nice. Just a moment...”

I began to whimper.

“Hush, hush!” she said, and sticking her tongue out, she licked my face. “You dear, lovely, little creature!”

“Woof woof! Woof woof!” I barked. “Woof! Woof, woof, woof!” ~ excerpt from Sexus

Crazy Cock
This work reminds me of the book I have, called "Crazy Cock" by H.M., ribald and full of sarciastic satyrs, written in 1927, it is one of his few novels to feature a character other than Henry Miller in the role of protagonist. Tony Bring is depicted as a struggling writer with a bourgeois background who gets enmeshed in human flesh of an unusual love triangle when his wife's female lover Vanya comes to live in their cramped Greenwich Village apartment, things get too close for comfort, but not too close for pleasure...


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The other book I like was an immovable feast by Ernest Hemingway, memoirs about his years in Paris as part of the American expatriate circle of writers in the 1920's. Apparently the Feast was quite Movable...

Related Poem For Henry Miller

. . . and from the writer's mouth comes the horse of inequity, a poem in tribute to Henry Valentine Miller by the artist of Under the Roofs tribute Luke Charchuk

Henry Valentine
Henry Miller Valentine, who named his daughter Valentine
Who looked a prince from an early age,
Who married all his wives in June, who was his valentine,
King Henry, who married all his valentines,
Who lost their heads over him, who had six wives,
But loved Anais, who had sex with women, but loved a Nin
Who had Sexus with Nexus to become Plexus,
Crazy Cock with a fist to take aim, as big as Texas
Who pecked with his pecker for a cock-and-bull-fight
Who has never been to Spain, like Picasso or Hemingway
Could never set his foot on stage, Big Sur they call him
Love leading the blind out of Greenwich Village studios
And New York art schools; Born in Boston in the heat of noon
Somewhere in the tropics between Cancer and Capricorn
With a Scorpio moon and Aries rising; Man ascends
with the horn of the Ram in the bedrooms of the mad dames
Cramming in crowded speakeasies, barred from barrooms
Decked with sailors and Arian army nurses, party dolls
Whose mission is to save him from himself
Ballrooms dressed in dancers, wall to wall
And dancehalls filled with flip-flop flappers after the war;
Lost generation, starting a new religion in Paris
Not like those rosie Rosecrucians or trendy Transcendentalists
Not like Jesus, but Jesus-like, who prayed for a Rosy Crucifixion
The American freedom movement of romance
Aka Lady Liberty, ala viva la France!
Apathy is the price you pay for love at a distance. . .

Those days in Clichy were such quiet days
The Naked Lunch and the American Dream ~ poem by Luke Charchuk
lukecharchuk@canada.com

More Poetry From Lucan Charchuk
Right-click to open page in new window:
Two Poems Plus One by Luc
http://shebeenclub.com/index.php/2007/06/15/two-poems-plus-one-by-luc/
Kramer vs Kramer
http://shebeenclub.com/index.php/2006/11/23/luc-charchuk-kramer-vs-kramer/
When There is Weather
http://lancelot47.livejournal.com/10788.html
The Gates
http://lancelot47.livejournal.com/6064.html

"I love hearing it straight from the author's gift horse mouth, and Paris has always fascinated by me with his Eiffel tower, even though he kidnapped Helen. Maybe he should have used a Trojan horse?" ~ PSP

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More Jargon Over Henry Miller
http://community.livejournal.com/__henrymiller/

"Henry Miller says, 'Paint what you like and die happy' " ~ Anthony Hopkins



Henry Miller, Arthur Recital , 1943 Watercolour on paper ,10" x 1 4"

Right-click link to open page in new window:
The Writer's Brush ~ How Writers Paint the World, Anita Shopolsky Gallery
http://www.anitashapolskygallery.com/past_exhibits_writers.html

These are interesting works of art to me. . .

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E.E. Cummings, Performer . . . . . . . . . . Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Freud


Leonard Cohen, Grecian Woman

"I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it: we must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and soul." ~ Henry Miller
Right-click link to open page in new window:
http://community.livejournal.com/__henrymiller/5833.html

Miller's Art Mentor and lifelong friend Emil Schnellock



"Writer Henry Miller and Mary Washington College art professor Emil Schnellock forge a lifelong friendship. THEY WERE JUST a couple of Brooklyn boys. But they could not have been more different. . . Artist Salvador Dali and his wife were house guests at the same time as Miller--a mix that made the normally quiet countryside quite pyrotechnic. Writer Anaïs Nin, Henry's patron/confidante, also was a frequent visitor." ~ Fredericksburg Free-Lance Star
Right-click link to open page in new window:
http://www.wfls.com/News/FLS/2004/032004/03132004/1293178/index_html?page=1
Reference: Emil Schnellock ~ Cosmodemonic Telegraph Co.
http://cosmotc.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html
Reference: Emil Schnellock Biography ~ Cosmodemonic Telegraph Co.
http://cosmotc.blogspot.com/2007/06/emil-schnellock-biography.html

Sexus ~ Vladas and Sigitas Velyvis



2001, 90x160, Owner: private gallery Munich, Germany

Plexus ~ acrylic and watercolour, 20.5 x 28, Lisa Anderson-Bisson



Lisa Anderson-Bisson: (b.1955) Studied at Tufts Univ. and MFA, Boston (1986-1990). Exhibited: Brush with History Gallery, (solo, 1986, Animal Rights Education), Art Alive Gallery, Lowell, Ma. (1980, The Christmas) PAAM, MFA, Bank of Boston. Awards from Kodak, Lowell Sun, Chaser Bar, Provincetown and others. Cover of Provincetown Magazine (photo contest, 1998, May) and Kodak Intl. Newspaper Snapshot Awards (1988, Lowell Sun, 1rst place "Untitled and 3rd place "King Richard). Recently relocated to Provincetown.

Kendell Geers gets Sexus in France
Sexus is the title of a novel by Henry Miller. 'Sexus' is an exhibition titled after the novel by Henry Miller. Like Miller, Geers claims an association with "the family of materialist hedonists, whose origins lie in the mists of philosophical and mythological time, and contrast with rationalist or mystical ascetics".


Less cryptically, 'Sexus' was specially designed exhibition by Geers for Les Moulins Albigeois, in Albi, southwest France. It will include one or two old works, hitherto never exhibited in Europe, as well as many new ones. The show is Geers' first devoted entirely to eroticism.
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http://www.artthrob.co.za/04aug/listings_intl.html#albi

A WOMANS BODY (I) ~ according to Henry Miller


Foto de Caryn Drexl
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http://xupacabras.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/fotos_de_corposnudes_photos/

Tropic of Capricorn ~ equating the heat
""Your whole past is like a long sleep which would have been forgotten had there been no memory, but remembrance is there in the blood and the blood is like an ocean in which everything is washed away but that which is new and more substantial even than life - reality." ~ Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn
Right-click link to open page in new window:
http://theresalduncan.typepad.com/witostaircase/2006/08/a_scent_of_jasm.html
Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn
http://pigshitpoet.livejournal.com/26570.html

Right-click link to open page in new window:
Henry Miller Blog ~ Awesome Website ! . . . with Tons of Insights !
http://cosmotc.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html
More Links to Henry Miller
http://home.pacbell.net/washley/hmbiblio/millink.html
June Miller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Miller
Writer’s Timeline
http://www.henrymiller.org/miller.html
Henry Miller Art Gallery ~ Tribute Run By Daughter Valentine
http://www.henrymiller.info/

Henry & June

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