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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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One of the great thinkers of the twentieth century has some of his finest art, culture and literary criticism collected here for the first time. A Nobel laureate, Octavio Paz's lucid poetry has been translated by such luminaries as Mark Strand, Elizabeth... (read more)

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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
by Clive James
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Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry
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The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
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Morning, Noon, and Night: Finding the Meaning of Life's Stages Through Books
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Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain (New York Review Books Classics)
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About a Mountain
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The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems (Harvest Original)
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The Libertine Reader: Eroticism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France
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