Charles Simic is a poet, essayist and translator. He has published twenty collections of his own poetry, five books of essays, a memoir, and numerous of books of translations. He has received many literary awards for his poems and his translations, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. Voice at 3 A.M., his selected later and new poems, was published in 2003 and a new book of poems My Noiseless Entourage came out in the spring of 2005.
@lt;i@gt;Dime-Store Alchemy@lt;/i@gt;...is the most sustained literary response this far to Cornell's boxes, montages, and films...incisive, freewheeling, dramatic--a mixture of evocation and observation, as lucid and shadowy as the imagination it celebrates...@lt;i@gt;Dime-Store Alchemy@lt;/i@gt; is a meeting of kindred spirits that is itself a work of art. --Edward Hirsch, @lt;i@gt;The New Yorker@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt; @lt;br@gt; A beautiful book that evokes Cornell's artistic spirit. --@lt;i@gt;Harper's Bazaar@lt;/i@gt;