Word: goyen
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...knows what possible frescoes are inside the skull?" Thus Octogenarian Martha Graham cryptically advertised her new work, Holy Jungle, based on William Goyen's novel, House of Breath. Next month she is presenting on Broadway what she describes as her most ambitious season ever, a three-week repertory that will include six major Graham revivals plus six performances of Clytemnestra and a reworking of last season's Mendicants of the Evening. Graham will star in the gala opening-as a commentator, not a dancer...
...FAIR SISTER, by William Goyen. Savata Drew turned from dancing in a strip joint to becoming the most successful bishop in a Negro evangelical sect in Brooklyn. White Texan William Goyen tells her story with sympathy...
...FAIR SISTER, by William Goyen. A white Texan peers behind the facades of the store-front cathedrals in the Negro ghettos of great East Coast cities and finds a world of religion, chicanery and entertainment that only Negroes know from the inside. The novel's heroine, part prophetess, part charlatan, is all woman...
...FAIR SISTER, by William Goyen. A white Texan peers behind the facades of the store-front cathedrals in the Negro ghettos of great East Coast cities and finds a world of religion, chicanery and entertainment that only Negroes know from the inside. The novel's heroine, part prophetess, part charlatan, is all woman...
...supposed that a Gothic chapter house full of Renaissance prelates was less full of worldly guile than Goyen's illiterate, self-certified Savonarolas in their rented temples. It is just that they are more obvious; no canon law inhibits their behavior and no lapidary creed slows down their freewheeling extempore theology...