Dime-Store Alchemy
The Art of Joseph Cornell
$27.55
- Paperback
120 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2011
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590174869 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590174860 |
| Author: | Charles Simic |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 120 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2011 |
| Weight: | 141g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 126mm |
| Series: | New York Review Books Classics |
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Critics Review
Remains one of the best introductions to the reluctant surrealist. It is a touchstone for art writing and a virtuosic work of ekphrasis.
Remains one of the best introductions to the reluctant surrealist. It is a touchstone for art writing and a virtuosic work of ekphrasis. TLS
About The Author
Charles Simic
Charles Simic is a poet, essayist and translator. He has published twenty collections of his own poetry, five books of essays, a memoir, and numerous 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 published in 2003 and a new book of poems My Noiseless Entourage came out in the spring of 2005. His new ebook is titled Confessions of a Poet Laureate.
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