by Ben Lerner
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Page 173: Detail of a production still from The Passenger (1975).
COLOPHON
Leaving the Atocha Station was designed at Coffee House Press,
in the historic Grain Belt Brewery’s Bottling House near downtown Minneapolis.
The text is set in Spectrum.
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