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Five Works by Octavio Paz: Conjunctions and Disjunctions / Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bare / The Monkey Grammarian / On Poets and Others (Arcade Classics)
by Octavio Paz
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The Other Walk: Essays
by Sven Birkerts
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The Art of the Poetic Line
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The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems (Harvest Original)
by Frances Mayes
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The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness
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The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
by Elif Batuman
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The Novelist's Lexicon: Writers on the Words That Define Their Work
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Poetry Lesson
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The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life
by Harold Bloom
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