What can words be, or rather, what can t they be? Poet Alastair Reid introduces children and adults to the wondrous waywardness of words in "Ounce Dice Trice," a delicious confection and a wildly unexpected exploration of sound and sense and nonsense that is like nothing else. Reid offers light words (willow, whirr, spinnaker) and heavy words (galoshes, mugwump, crumb), words on the move and odd words, words that read both ways and words that read the wrong way around (rezagrats), along with much else. Accompanied by Ben Shahn s glorious drawings, "Ounce Dice Trice" is a book of endless...

What is mind dribble? The thoughts that ooze out from that dark corner of your mind and take the form of prose and poems. This collection of mind dribble varies from love to hate, from silence to music. Let me first apologize. Some of the content in this work is pretty cheesy. Some might say vulgar, maybe even violent. Others may determine that some of the writing is just bad. Frankly, I agree. But the point here was to put it out there. Exploring these thoughts that somehow find their way on to paper, dribbling out of some dark corner of the mind intrigues me. They are snapshots of a moment...