# Dime-Store Alchemy

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- Book: [Dime-Store Alchemy](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-simic/dime-store-alchemy) ([Dime-Store Alchemy.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-simic/dime-store-alchemy.md))
- Authors: [Charles Simic](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-simic)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-9017-486-9
- Pages: 120
- Published: 2011-09-20
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...