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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. 

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      Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
      Publication Date: 20/09/2011
      ISBN13: 9781590174869, 978-1590174869
      ISBN10: 1590174860
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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. 

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