Ounce, Dice, Trice

Alastair Reid

Harry N. Abrams

Alastair Reid began publishing poetry in the New Yorker in 1951 and has since contributed reviews, translations, stories, and reportage as well. Having lived variously in Scotland, the United States, Spain, France, Greece, Switzerland, Central and South America, Reid has until recently called Magazine his only permanent address.Many of the poems in Weathering arise from Reid’s itinerant life. Chosen by the poet from previous books published on both sides of the Atlantic since the 1950s, they range from the windowed corridors of New York city to Isla Negra, Chile, where the poet sits 'with the Pacific between my toes.'Whether lyric or narrative, whether moved by wit, irony, or humor, all Reid’s poems test the strength of language to ‘summon the moment when amazement ran through the senses like a flame’ and gauge the power of words to catch fire in an instant of realization. Including translations of poems by Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, and Jose Emilio Pacheco, Weathering displays the diverse talents of the poet, the recurring preoccupations of the itinerant traveler, seeking to encompass the world with words.

Weathering: Poems and Translations

Literature & Fiction

United States

E.P.Dutton

A Balloon For A Blunderbuss ISBN: 9780714848730

Bob Gill

PHAIDON INGLES

<p>A collection of old and new words features words to be said in singing moods, words for times of day, and rude names for nitwits, and defines such words as gongoozler, tantony, and cosse</p>

Shahn, Ben

Children's Books

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Whereabouts: Notes on Being a Foreigner

Travel

Specialty Travel

NORTH POINT PRESS

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