Dime-Store Alchemy
(Paperback, Main)
Publishing Details
Dime-Store Alchemy
By (Author) Charles Simic
The New York Review of Books, Inc
NYRB Classics
15th October 2011
25th October 2011
Main
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
709.2
Physical Properties
Paperback
120
Width 10mm, Height 205mm, Spine 130mm
141g
Description
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.
Reviews
Remains one of the best introductions to the reluctant surrealist. It is a touchstone for art writing and a virtuosic work of ekphrasis. TLS
Author Bio
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 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. 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.
