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The Mayans

Eleanor Lerman
December 7, 2006   |    This article appeared in the December 25, 2006 edition of The Nation.
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The scowl is caught in jadeite.
The flattened face on a green bead
displayed in the orchestral light of the museum
also boards the train on Steinway Street.

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Eleanor Lerman
Eleanor Lerman is the author of Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds, for which she won The Nation's 2006 Lenore Marshall...

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Eleanor Lerman
December 7, 2006   |    This article appeared in the December 25, 2006 edition of The Nation.
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