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Part I (Pages 1 - 36)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Lerner, Ben. Leaving the Atocha Station. Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, 2011. Paperback.

• This book was written in the past tense and from the first person perspective.

• In Part I, a young post-graduate American poet named Adam was on a prestigious but unnamed fellowship in Spain.

• The year was 2004, and America is at war with Iraq.

• On his fellowship, Adam was supposed to be studying the Spanish Civil War to base his work on, but in reality he spent most of his time taking drugs and visiting museums and galleries.

• Adam liked to go to a gallery often and to stay for hours in front of certain paintings.

• One morning he went and found that someone else was at his usual place.

• Adam had often worried he was incapable of having a profound...

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