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In Dime-Store Alchemy, Poet Laureate 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.

This beautiful, hardcover edition includes short pieces of surrealist prose and poetry by Simic, along with eight full-color images of the art of Joseph Cornell.

In his review for the New York Times, poet Mark Strand said, "Dime-Store Alchemy is an act of homage, an ideal commentary, suffused with the peculiar charm, the oneiric energy of its subject, it is pure illumination, Simic at his very best."

Hardcover; 82 pages with Illustrations