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REID, Alastair

Children's Books

SIDGWICK JACKSON

Borges: A Reader: A Selection from the Writings of Jorge Luis Borges

Literature & Fiction

Monegal, Emir Rodriguez

History & Criticism

E.P.Dutton

This comprehensive study examines British shipbuilding and industrial relations from 1870 to 1950, addressing economic, social and political history to provide an holistic approach to industry, trade-unionism and the early history of the Labour Party. Examining the impact of new machinery, of independent rank-and-file movements and of craft and trade unions, The Tide of Democracy provides an authoritative account of industrial action in shipyards in the period and their effect on the birth and development of the Labour Party. This volume is clearly presented, elegantly written and suffused with a distinctly human touch which brings the technical material to life. Unique in the combined attention it gives to Scottish and English history, and drawing upon an impressive range of primary sources, this volume will be indispensable for specialist researchers, undergraduates and graduate students.

The tide of democracy: Shipyard workers and social relations in Britain, 1870–1950

History

Europe

Manchester University Press

This is the essential landscape of Spain, a landscape of surprising diversity and beauty--of farms, villages, small towns, medieval fortress-castles, traditional bullfights, gypsies, and farmers that embody those elements of Spanish culture still little-touched by the homogenizing influences of modern life. 125 full-color illustrations.

Eternal Spain: The Spanish Rural Landscape

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

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

Poetry

University of Georgia Press

An illustrated collection of old and new words features words to be used during singing moods, words for times of day, and rude names for nitwits and defines such words as gongoozler, tantony, and oose

Ounce, Dice, Trice (Gregg Press Children's Literature Series)

Shahn, Ben

Gregg Pr

Whereabouts: Notes on Being a Foreigner

Whereabouts: Notes on being a foreigner

Biographies & Memoirs

NORTH POINT PRESS

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

Middlebury College

From Publishers Weekly\nThis new volume in the Bread Loaf Series of Contemporary Writers collects the essays, criticism, musings, poetry and translations of Scottish-born Reid, a longtime New Yorker contributor whose "wandering life" has taken him to Spain, London, Latin America, many corners of the U.S. and beyond. Reid's intelligence seems most engaged by the role and metaphor of translation, not only in the sense of rendering one language into another but of serving as a translator between distinct realms of experience, or between experience and the impulse to capture it in words. He is a mediator whose authority is necessarily improvisational, subject to change and addressing it as a theme. This may be why his pieces that relate directly to travel, uprooting and literary translation-an art of change-are the most interesting here. Especially in "Basilisks' Eggs," where he discusses the challenges of literary translation, and in "Digging Up Scotland," an excavation of his personal and national origins, Reid writes trenchantly about the vagaries of living and working in "a number of different countries, a number of different languages." 
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An Alastair Reid Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose (Bread Loaf Series of Contemporary Writers)

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

Canongate Publishing

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