Pinocchio

Publisher Marketing: "Thanks to Carlo Collodi, the real creator of Pinocchio, I have for many years been able to live thru the wooden boy. His ability to hold the metaphor in limitless ways has made my drawings, paintings and sculpture of him richer by far. His poor burned feet, his misguided judgment, his vanity about his large nose, his temporary donkey ears all add up to the real sum of his parts. In the end it is his great heart that holds me. I have carried him on my back like landscape since I was six years old. Sixty-four years is a long time to get to know someone, yet his depth and secrets are endless. This book is for the Boy." Pinocchio has long been a significant motif in Jim Dine's work, and this book is his illustrated version of Collodi's original, dark story. Set far from a traditional fairy-tale world, containing as it does the hard realities of the need for food, shelter and other basic measures of daily life, its allegory, satire and wit are the perfect subject for Dine's graphic drawings. Review Citations: PW Notes and Reprints 09/19/2005 pg. 69 (EAN 9781933327006, Hardcover) School Library Journal 12/01/2005 pg. 107 (EAN 9781933327006, Hardcover) Booklist 11/15/2005 pg. 45 (EAN 9781933327006, Hardcover) Booklist 12/01/2003 pg. 664 (EAN 9780763622619, Hardcover) School Library Journal 12/01/2003 pg. 148 (EAN 9780763622619, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 01/05/2004 pg. 62 (EAN 9780763622619, Hardcover) New York Times 12/21/2003 pg. 16 (EAN 9780763622619, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2003 pg. 77 (EAN 9780763622619, Hardcover) School Library Journal 10/01/2004 pg. 50 (EAN 9780763622619, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2004 pg. 77 (EAN 9780763622619, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 650 (EAN 9780763622619, Hardcover) PW Notes and Reprints 11/04/2002 pg. 87 (EAN 9780765344588, Mass Market Paperbound) Publishers Weekly 11/04/2002 (EAN 9780765344588, Mass Market Paperbound) PW Notes and Reprints 11/04/2002 pg. 87 (EAN 9780765305916, Hardcover) New York Times 11/17/2002 pg. 38 (EAN 9780765305916, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2002 pg. 77 (EAN 9780765305916, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2003 pg. 77 (EAN 9780765305916, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 11/04/2002 (EAN 9780765305916, Hardcover) Booklist 04/01/2002 pg. 1328 (EAN 9780968876800, Hardcover) New York Times 11/17/2002 pg. 38 (EAN 9780968876800, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 04/15/2002 (EAN 9780968876800, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 650 (EAN 9780968876800, Hardcover) Newsweek 11/26/2007 pg. 16 (EAN 9780140367089, Paperback) Publishers Weekly 08/20/2001 pg. 82 (EAN 9780811822831, Hardcover) School Library Journal 12/01/2001 pg. 133 (EAN 9780811822831, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2001 pg. 83 (EAN 9780811822831, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2002 pg. 83 (EAN 9780811822831, Hardcover) School Library Journal 08/01/1996 pg. 126 (EAN 9780689802300, Analog Audio Cassette) School Library Journal 08/01/1998 (EAN 9780689802300, Analog Audio Cassette) School Library Journal 02/01/1994 pg. 78 (EAN 9780688124519, Hardcover) Booklist 10/01/1993 pg. 339 (EAN 9780688124519, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1993 (EAN 9780688124519, Hardcover) School Library Journal 02/01/1994 pg. 78 (EAN 9780688124502, Hardcover) Booklist 10/01/1993 pg. 339 (EAN 9780688124502, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1993 (EAN 9780688124502, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 10/04/1993 (EAN 9780688124502, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 08/26/1996 pg. 98 (EAN 9780399229411, Hardcover) Kirkus Review - Children 08/15/1996 pg. 1233 (EAN 9780399229411, Hardcover) School Library Journal 10/01/1996 pg. 85 (EAN 9780399229411, Hardcover) Booklist 11/15/1996 pg. 586 (EAN 9780399229411, Hardcover) New York Times 11/10/1996 pg. 31 (EAN 9780399229411, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/1996 pg. 57 (EAN 9780399229411, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 96 01/01/1997 pg. 65 (EAN 9780399229411, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/2001 pg. 544 (EAN 9780399229411, Hardcover) New York Times 12/16/2001 pg. 20 (EAN 9780399229411, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 788 (EAN 9780399229411, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2011 pg. 22 (EAN 9780735823242, Hardcover) Booklist 01/01/2011 pg. 105 (EAN 9780735823242, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/2011 pg. 161 (EAN 9780735823242, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Collodi, Carlo Carlo Collodi (1826-1890), the author of "Pinocchio", was a journalist who also wrote comedies and edited newspapers and reviews. Contributor Bio:  Dine, Jim My Poetry Biography, by Jim Dine, 2014: I was born in 1935. The real story is that I didn't meet poetry till I was 19 when my sculpture professor, Dave Hosteller, at Ohio University, played Dylan Thomas reading his poems an a Caedmon "LP" record. He also gave me Under Milk Wood (Thomas's radio play) to listen to. During my early 20s, I made performances in New York with colleagues in the "downtown" art world. My most elaborate work, called Car Crash, was a cacophony of sounds and words spoken by a great white Venus with animal grunts and howls by me. Five years later, I illustrated Ron Padgett's translation of Apollinaire's The Poet Assassinated. Meeting Ron introduced me to his work and the works of other poets he admired. At the same time, I met and fell in love with Robert Creeley. He was, to me, all about poetry. He was generous with his thoughts, but it was his Massachusetts-accented voice that was the poetry. I read Ted Berrigan's The Sonnets. It was 1966, and I started to write poetry full force around then. I went to England in 1967 and met the poet-printers Asa Benveniste and Tom Raworth. Asa wanted to publish my poems. He did. The book was called Welcome Home Lovebirds. There were a lot of letters and postcards written between me and U. S. poets. In London, there was much talk around Asa about poetry and Asa's history as a poet and publisher of poets. He was, I guess, 10 years older than me. I started to write every day and continued till about 1972 when I stopped. I'm not clear why, but I began again around 1990 when I met Diana Michener. She is a very inspirational character, and her eccentric big soul understands all I've written since. We have read together in public over the past 12 years with the New York poet, Vincent Katz, who has befriended my poems. I have learned from his personal vision. Many of my poems are written first on long sheets of paper tacked to the wall. Some are 8 or 9 feet long, and I write in charcoal or crayon and then "white out" when I want to change a word, with a mixture of white pigment mixed with shellac. I also can cut out a line with a box cutter and lose it or use it in another place in the poem by glueing it or stapling it to the paper on the wall. This technique is a lot like the way I draw. Correcting and erasing are important tools, for my poems and my drawings.