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Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell, by Charles Simic
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Publication Date (hardcover): September 12, 2006
Publication Date (softcover): September 20, 2011
Pages: 116
Originally published in 1992.
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.