Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell

Name: Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell
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ISBN: 9781590174869

by Charles Simic

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In Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic reflects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America's great artists. Simic's spare prose is as enchanting and luminous as the mysterious boxes of found objects for which Cornell is justly renowned.

Publisher:: New York Review of Books
ISBN:: 9781590174869
Binding:: Paperback
Pages:: 120
Authors:: Charles Simic
Published Date:: 2011-09-20
Language:: English

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About Charles Simic

Charles Simic (1938–2023) was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and emigrated to the United States in 1954. He won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The World Doesn't End (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989) and served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2007 to 2008. His later collections include Hotel Insomnia (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992) and The Voice at 3:00 A.M. (Harcourt, 2003). He taught American literature and creative writing for more than three decades at the University of New Hampshire and received a MacArthur Fellowship.

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