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Again the Albatross
Goyen, William | January 21, 1956 issue

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The article presents information on the book "The Alchemist's Voyage: An Adventure," by Calvin Kentfield. The AIchemist's Voyage is a vivid tone poem whose imagery is that of the burnt and tattooed marks of identity and obsession and destiny and the images of sewing and stenciling and burning and adumbrating carry this symbolism of the hidden aspects and quests of self to an hallucinatory climax and a matter-of-fact ending. Kentfield's descriptions of sea and coast and sky are magical and his feeling for weather and his perceptions into the mysteries and enigmas that surround men, afloat and lost to earthbound realities are impassioned and strange.

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ALCHEMIST'S Voyage, The (Book); KENTFIELD, Calvin; VOYAGES & travels; TRAVEL; BOOKS; LITERATURE
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