Dime-Store Alchemy
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Dime-Store Alchemy by Charles Simic
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.Charles Simic is a poet, essayist, and translator who was born in Yugoslavia in 1938 and moved to America in 1954. He has produced twenty books of poetry, a memoir, the essay collection The Life of Images, and various books of translations since 1967, for which he has won numerous literary accolades, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize, the MacArthur Fellowship, and the Wallace Stevens Award. Simic is a regular writer to The New York Review of Books and was named United States poet laureate in 2007. He is an emeritus professor at the University of New Hampshire and a distinguished visiting writer at New York University, where he has taught since 1973.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781590174869 |
| ISBN 10 | 1590174860 |
| Title | Dime-Store Alchemy |
| Author | Charles Simic |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The New York Review of Books, Inc |
| Year published | 2011-09-20 |
| Number of pages | 120 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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