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San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987. First edition (stated). Octavo in white DJ, viii, 303 pages; 22 cm. 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. Hardcover.

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.