Alastair Reid (1) (1926–2014)

Autore di Ounce Dice Trice

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Sull'Autore

Alastair Reid was born in Galloway, Scotland on March 22, 1926. He was a poet, translator, and essayist. He wrote more than a 100 articles and poems for The New Yorker, beginning in 1943 and ending in 2004. He translated the works of Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda. He was the author of several mostra altro collections of poetry including Oddments Inklings Omens Moments, Passwords, Weathering, Inside Out, and Outside In. He died on September 21, 2014 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

Fonte dell'immagine: Alastair Reid, author of "Outside In" and "Ounce, Dice, Trice"

Opere di Alastair Reid

Popolari Recenti

Ounce Dice Trice (1958) 138 copie

Whereabouts: Notes on Being a Foreigner (1963) 40 copie

Supposing... (2010) 32 copie

Weathering: Poems and Translations (1978) 22 copie

Oases : poems and prose (1997) 8 copie

An Alastair Reid Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose (Bread Loaf Series of Contemporary Writers) (1994) 7 copie

To be alive! (1966) 6 copie

I Will Tell You of a Town (1956) 5 copie

Eternal Spain: The Spanish Rural Landscape (1991) 5 copie

Fairwater (1957) 4 copie

Outside In: Selected Prose (2008) 4 copie

Oddments, inklings, omens, moments; poems (1959) 4 copie

Passwords: Places, Poems, Preoccupations (1963) 3 copie

Inside Out: Selected Poetry and Translations (2008) 3 copie

Allth 2 copie

Curiosity 1 copia

Digging Up Scotland (2002) 1 copia

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Finzioni (1944) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 7,597 copie

Selected Poems (1999) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 1,219 copie

The World Treasury of Science Fiction (1989) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 891 copie

The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems (2004) — Traduttore — 856 copie

Seven Nights (1980) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 680 copie

Il viaggio premio (1960) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 578 copie

Stravagario (1958) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 271 copie

On the Blue Shore of Silence (2003) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 154 copie

Elsewhere: Tales of Fantasy (1982) — Collaboratore — 144 copie

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius [short story] (1940) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 72 copie

Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Traduttore — 72 copie

Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (1684) — Collaboratore — 69 copie

A Golden Land (1958) — Collaboratore — 42 copie

Selected Poetry, 1937-1990 (Wesleyan Poetry) (1994) — Traduttore — 20 copie

Fire and Sleet and Candlelight: New Poems of the Macabre (1961) — Collaboratore — 16 copie

Mother Goose in Spanish (1968) — Traduttore — 13 copie

New World Writing 14 (1950) — Collaboratore — 8 copie

The Upheaval of War: Family, Work and Welfare in Europe, 1914-1918 (1989) — Collaboratore — 5 copie

Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Traduttore — 5 copie

Antaeus No. 70, Spring 1993 - Special Fiction Issue (1993) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita: 1926-03-22
Data di morte: 2014-09-22
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: UK
Luogo di nascita: Whithorn, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
Luogo di morte: Manhattan, New York, USA
Luogo di residenza: New York, New York, USA
London, England, UK
Spain
Switzerland
Mexico
Chile (mostra tutto 8)
Argentina
Dominican Republic
Istruzione: University of St Andrews (did not graduate)
Attività lavorative: translator
poet
editor
essayist
Coder in Royal Navy (WW2)
Organizzazioni: The New Yorker (South American Editor)
Royal Navy (WWII)

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Recensioni

Supposing... di Alastair Reid

Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.

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fernandie | 1 altra recensione | Sep 15, 2022 |

Ounce Dice Trice (New York Review Children's… di Alastair Reid

From brainpickings
... [a] marvelous exploration of the nooks and crannies of language, real and imagined, through obscure, esoteric, and invented words for familiar things that are as mind-bending as they are tongue-twisting...
Reid writes to his young readers
"if you grow to love words for their own sake, you will begin to collect words yourself, and you will be grateful, as I am, to all the people who collect odd words and edit odd dictionaries, out of sheer astonishment and affection."… (altro)

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Bookshuffler | 5 altre recensioni | Jan 10, 2018 |

Ounce Dice Trice (New York Review Children's… di Alastair Reid

not in CLAN

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Cheryl_in_CC_NV | 5 altre recensioni | Jun 5, 2016 |

Ounce Dice Trice (New York Review Children's… di Alastair Reid

Superbly quirky fun with words - and meant to be read aloud.
Many, many thanks to our children's librarian for pulling this for Z.

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beckydj | 5 altre recensioni | Mar 31, 2013 |

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