Elegy for Joseph Cornell is at once a monologue, a collection of metafictional microfictions, a series of prose poems, an artist's quest, the hero's journey, a filmography, biography, bibliography, and inventory, a travel scrapbook, and a guidebook for creativity. Argentinian writer María Negroni transcends form and genre as she explores, with both luminous and illuminating results, the life of Joseph Cornell, a solitary urban artist whose work also defied conventional classification.