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...

One, two one, two And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

Un deux, un deux, par le milieu,
Le glaive vorpal fait pat-a-pan
La bete defaite, avec sa tete,
Il rentre gallomphant.

Eins, Zwei Eins, Zwei Und durch und durch
Seins vorpals Schwert zerschniferschnuck.
Da blieb es todt Er, Kopf in Hand,
Gelaumfig zog zuruck

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Peer to Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Octavio Paz, Alvaro Mutis is indisputably one of the greatest Latin American authors of the 20th century and this collection brings together the best of Mutis' largely-unknown body of poetry.

Alvaro Mutis is celebrated internationally as the author of the seven novellas, written between 1986 and 1993, that constitute the legendary and widely loved Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll. Maqroll, the Gaviero, or watchman, is a wanderer on the face of the earth, always in pursuit of love and fortune, even as he knows that neither can nor...