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The hungry art of William Goyen.

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From: The Southern Review
Date: 20040922
Author:Davis, Clark

   The beautiful is always strange. 
                 --Charles Baudelaire 
                 "Exposition Universelle 1855" 
 
   In dammrigen Gruften 
   Traumte ich lang ... 
                 --Hermann Hesse, "Fruling" 
                   Set to music by 
                     Richard Strauss, 1948

WHEN I WAS FOURTEEN I WANTED TO BE A PIANIST. That is, I wanted to be what pianists looked like on record covers--darkly serious, foreheads bulging, hands scrubbed pale and powerful. Look at Glenn Gould on the first volume of the Bach toccatas, Sviatoslav Richter on any cover of anything ...

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