Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell (New York Review Books Classics);

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.