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Out of the box. “Box artist” Joseph Cornell carved out a unique place for himself in the history of 20th-century art, slipping into the cracks between Surrealism, Pop Art and Minimalism. Jonathan Safran Foer, fêted author of Everything Is Illuminated, started to convene the Cornell-inspired works of poetry and fiction that make up A Convergence Of Birds (first published in America in 2001) long before he was a known name, and it’s testament to his enthusiasm for the project that it got off the ground at all. Alongside his own touching contribution, If The Aging Artist Should Begin To Believe, highlights include Robert Coover’s Borgesian descriptions of a series of fanciful hotels, Joanna Scott’s eerily playful Slide Show, Barry Lopez’s prison-break story Emory Bear Hands’ Birds, and an utterly unexpected 16th-century priest-hole thriller by Paul West. Elsewhere, Rick Moody proves he isn’t much of a poet and several authors fortify experimental fiction’s reputation as the Billy No-Mates of the literary world. Beautiful colour plates of Cornell’s boxes appear throughout, providing the collection’s fascinating aesthetic backbone. A Convergence Of Birds edited by Jonathan Safran Foer, out now published by Hamish Hamilton.
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