- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd (25 May 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0241142156
- ISBN-13: 978-0241142158
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 16 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 430,415 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
Jonathan Safran Foer has long had a passion for the work of the twentieth-century American assemblage artist Joseph Cornell. Inspired by Cornell's avian-themed boxes, and suspecting that they would be similarly inspiring to others, Foer began to write letters. The responses he received from luminaries of American writing were nothing short of astounding. Twenty writers generously contributed pieces of prose and poetry that are as eclectic as they are imaginative, and the result is a unique collaborative project and one of the most significant engagements of literature with art for many years.
About the Author
Jonathan Safran Foer was born in 1977. He is the author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Everything Is Illuminated, which won the National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book Award. He lives in New York.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
There was a great idea behind this book. Many writers contributed, they were all to write short stories, or poems inspired by the boxed bird art of Joseph Cornell.
It is amazing how different the range of work is, most is on the themes of confined spaces, boxes, birds and the artist himself.
The layout of the book is beautiful, each piece of work begins with a loosely pasted example of one of Cornell's boxes.
A very beautiful book, well done to Jonathan Safran Foer, whoes idea it was.
It is amazing how different the range of work is, most is on the themes of confined spaces, boxes, birds and the artist himself.
The layout of the book is beautiful, each piece of work begins with a loosely pasted example of one of Cornell's boxes.
A very beautiful book, well done to Jonathan Safran Foer, whoes idea it was.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
the blackbird whistling
23 Jan 2002
Format:Hardcover
I received this book from an old friend who I hadn't seen in nearly twenty years--she showed up unannounced, spent a few hours sitting in the sun, and then disappeared just as unexpectedly. I still don't know if she meant to leave the book behind, but I've decided that I won't give it up. Cornell's boxes have a strange beauty that seems to attract strange birds--deceptively simple, at first you barely realize how quickly you can slip into these lost, overlooked, forgotten worlds that seem to hum along according to an amusingly skewed logic. Many of the stories and poems show writers who've successfully crossed over and have sent back postcards filled with the fresh and unfamiliar voices of travellers far from home.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
a great book for Cornell fans
28 July 2001
Format:Hardcover
With it's tipped in plates and beautiful end papers I think this book is a bibliophile's dream. Being a big fan of Cornell's work I was very impressed and pleased with the overall packaging, which I find to be quite lovely, and the quality of the writing. Finally I was really impressed when I found out that the editor put it all together while he was still in college. I think this is a great book for fans of Joseph Cornell's boxes.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Inspiring! IĀ'm getting this book for everyone I know!
27 July 2001
Format:Hardcover
I'm a huge Joseph Cornell fan, and own every book that has anything to do with him. This is the best! Not only are the images beautiful and plentiful (and many new to me), but the stories and poems are so unbelievably entertaining and different from one another. I've never seen a book quite like this one, and I'm going to give a copy to everyone I know!
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