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Article: Praising the riddle: Charles Simic and the Art of Joseph Cornell.(Currents)
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- World Literature Today
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- November 1, 2007
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POET CHARLES SIMIC has indicated that he regards poems much like boxes, into which fractured and scrutinized language, images, and symbols are arranged and rearranged until their deeper meaning is uncovered. Reading Simic's work, we are looking into a kaleidoscope that he rotates for us. It comes as no surprise that a young Simic would find Joseph Cornell's famous boxes fascinating. Simic begins the preface to Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell, recently reprinted by New York Review Books, by saying: "I have a dream in which Joseph Cornell and I pass each other on the street. This is not beyond the realm of possibility. I walked ...
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