L editions are Chillwind invite you to attend the book launch of Charles Simic , flea Alchemy, The Art of Joseph Cornell , and afterword translated by Daniel Canty.
The launch will take place at the bookstores on Wednesday, December 8 from 18h and Evelyn La Chenelière read from the text.
American artist Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) could neither draw or sculpt. Dreamer applied and solitary, he scoured flea markets and antique shops of Manhattan in search of discoveries to bring in the basement of his childhood home at Utopia Parkway, where he lived with his invalid brother, Robert. He fulfilled his "shadow boxes" found objects, manufactured shorts from falling films of the golden age of Hollywood and was making collages haunted by images of unknown women.
Charles Simic, who has walked the same streets that Cornell has given us a book of Walker, Baedeker erupted in this city where real unreal Cornell spent his life on the border of dreamlike and America. Immigrants from a Europe-tale, the spectra of Taglioni, of Houdini and Bartleby, Poe, Melville and Dickinson, mingle with the extras of a paper theater. Alchemy brac, mixture of prose, poetry and fragments of newspapers Cornell leads to the conclusion that the discovery of the New World continues forever.
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Charles Simic, born in Belgrade in 1938, immigrated to the United States in 1954. He has published since 1967, many books of poetry and prose, rewarded by the most prestigious awards. He lives in New Hampshire and New York. Daniel Canty, his translator is a writer and director. He lives in Montreal and lived in New York.
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