Ashton, Dore — A Joseph Cornell Album

NY, Viking Press, 1974. Hardcover. Blue cloth. 240 pp. 81 bw plates. The author uses Cornell's own thoughts, words and readings to help the reader understand his "Poetic Soul". Contents as follows: Joseph Cornell / Dore Ashton -- Four poems for Cornell. Objetos y apariciones / Octavio Paz -- Objects and apparitions / Octavio Paz (translated by Elizabeth Bishop) -- Pantoum / John Ashberry -- The crystal cage / Stanley Kunitz -- Closet drama / Richard Howard -- Four homages from Cornell. Fanny Cerrito -- Maria -- The Bel Canto poet -- "Enchanted wanderer" -- Two memoirs of Cornell. Cornell: the enchanted wanderer / John Bernard Myers -- The invisible cathedrals of Joseph Cornell / Jonas Mekas -- Cornell's recommended readings. From the Memoirs of Hector Berlioz -- From The journal of Eugène Delacroix -- From The life of Rossini / Stendhal -- From The sermons of John Donne -- From Aurélia / Gérard de Nerval -- Poem / Emily Dickinson -- From Ann of Oxford Street / Thomas de Quincey -- From William Wetmore Story and his friends / Henry James -- From Science and health / Mary Baker Eddy -- From Where is science going? / Max Planck -- Sonnet / Stéphane Mallarmé -- Cornell's homage to children. Memoir / Peter Bazeley -- Photo essay / Denise Hare. VG+/VGtiny defect on rear upper center of dustjacket .