Convergences :; essays on art and literature
by Paz, Octavio; Lane, Helen (translator)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, extremely gentle rubbing to corners, faint soiling mark to rear board, light spot
- Seller
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Oakland, California, United States
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About This Item
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987. First edition (stated). Hardcover. Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, extremely gentle rubbing to corners, faint soiling mark to rear board, light spotting to fore-edge, extremely light soiling to DJ, else Very Good(+) in Near Fine(+) DJ.. Octavo in white DJ, viii, 303 pages ; 22 cm. Essays, Arts, Literary Criticism. || Contents: Reading and contemplation -- Seeing and using : art and craftsmanship -- At table and in bed -- Iniquitous symmetries -- The new analogy : poetry and technology -- The verbal contract -- Picasso : hand-to-hand combat with painting -- Literature and literalness -- Latin-American poetry -- A literature of convergences -- Quevedo, Heraclitus, and a handful of sonnets -- The tradition of the Haiku -- Blank thought -- Constellations : Breton and Miró -- Two centuries of American painting (1776-1971) -- The tree of life. || DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve.
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- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88945
- Title
- Convergences :; essays on art and literature
- Author
- Paz, Octavio; Lane, Helen (translator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, extremely gentle rubbing to corners, faint soiling mark to rear board, light spot
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition (stated)
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- San Diego
- Date Published
- 1987
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary Criticism;
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