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| Genre/Form: | Poetry Fiction |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Convergence of birds. New York, NY : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, c2001 (OCoLC)610492217 |
| Named Person: | Joseph Cornell |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jonathan Safran Foer |
| ISBN: | 1891024221 9781891024221 1891024302 9781891024306 |
| OCLC Number: | 47672219 |
| Description: | 238 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Emory bear hand's birds / Barry Lopez -- Rowing in Eden / Erik Anderson Reece -- It generally leads a solitary life or lives in pairs / Rick Moody -- Box artist / Joyce Carol Oates -- Showing an episode / Diane Williams -- Cursive example / Howard Norman -- Construction / John Burghardt -- Boxed in / Paul West -- Nine boxes / Siri Hustvedt -- Grand hotels / Robert Coover -- For brother Robert / Bradford Morrow -- Magic Musée / Martine Bellen -- Appearance of things / Dale Peck -- Slide show / Joanna Scott -- Birds of a feather / Diane Ackerman -- Bookmark, horizon (Emily Dickinson) / Ann Lauterbach -- Because I could not stop for death / Mary Caponegro -- Grid box / Rosemarie Waldrop -- Song / Robert Pinsky -- Impetus was delight / Lydia Davis -- Poem in which a bird does some of the talking / John Yau -- If the aging magician should begin to believe / Jonathan Safran Foer. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Jonathan Safran Foer. |
Abstract:
"This book is the result of a convergence, which began with the passion of a young writer, Jonathan Safran Foer, for the work of the 20th century American assemblage artist Joseph Cornell. Inspired by Cornell's avian-themed boxes, and suspecting that they would be similarly (and diversely) inspiring to others, Foer began to write letters. The responses he received from luminaries of American writing were nothing short of astounding.
From Joyce Carol Oates to Robert Pinsky, Rick Moody to Lydia Davis to Howard Norman, twenty writers have generously contributed original pieces of prose and poetry that are as eclectic as they are imaginative. Accompanied by tipped-on plates, this volume is a soaring tribute - not only to the work of Joseph Cornell, but also to the spirit of creation."--BOOK JACKET.
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