Responsible Viewing: Charles Simic's Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell.

From: Papers on Language & Literature | Date: September 22, 1998| Author: MORRIS, DANIEL | Copyright information

Poet Charles Simic gives voice to the visual gifts of iconoclast Joseph Cornell's shadow boxes in his 1992 book, "Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell." Simac seemingly co-authors the book with Cornell as he gives verbal discourse to analyze Cornell's art. Simic calls this work the third image.

   "Every art is about the longing of One for the Other. Orphans that we are, 
   we make our sibling kin out of anything we can find." 
 
   --Charles Simic, Dime-Store Alchemy (62)...

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