Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell

Now in Paperback 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. Author: Charles SimicPublisher: New York Review of BooksPublished: 09/20/2011Pages: 120Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.34dISBN13: 9781590174869ISBN10: 1590174860BISAC Categories:- Art | American | General- Art | Individual Artists | Essays- Art | Criticism & TheoryAbout the AuthorCharles Simic is a poet, essayist and translator. He has published twenty collections of his own poetry, five books of essays, a memoir, and numerous of books of translations. He has received many literary awards for his poems and his translations, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. The Voice at 3 A.M., his selected later and new poems, was