Weathering : poems and translations / Alastair Reid.

Author/creator Reid, Alastair
Other author Reid, Alastair, 1926-2014, inscriber.
Other author Eberhart, Betty, former owner.
Other author Eberhart, Richard, 1904-2005, former owner.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Dutton, ©1978.
Description125 pages ; 23 cm

Contents Growing, flying, happening -- Oddments, inklings, omens, moments -- Was, is, will be -- Directions for a map -- Waterglass -- Rain in Spain -- Once at Piertarvit -- Tale the hermit told -- Game of glass -- manse -- My father, dying -- For her sake -- In such a poise is love -- For ring-givers -- Lesson for beautiful women -- Small sad song -- Day for the book -- Me to you -- Calenture -- Figures on the frieze -- Quarrels -- Mandala : dilemma -- Scotland -- Mediterranean -- Galilea -- New York surprised -- Isle of Arran -- Isla Negra, Chile -- Tiree -- Chelsea reach -- Geneva -- New Hampshire -- Flying time -- Curiosity -- Propinquity -- Cat-faith -- Ghosts -- Pigeons -- Foreigners -- Daedalus -- Frog dream -- Colour of herring -- What's what -- Weathering -- Outlook, uncertain -- James Bottle's year -- 1973 -- That dying : November 23, 1963 -- Stalemate -- Black holes -- Amour de moi -- Fall -- Spiral -- Instance -- Querida Mañana -- Syntax of seasons -- Visiting lecturer -- Academy -- O-filler -- Lesson in music -- Lesson in handwriting -- Speaking a foreign language -- Translator to poet -- What gets lost.
Contents Translations: Roman conversation ; High treason ; Don't ask me how the time goes past / José Emilio Pacheco -- Great tablecloth ; How much happens in a day ; Horses ; Cat's dream ; Emerging ; We are many ; Consequences ; Past ; Goodbyes ; Too many names ; Lazybones ; It is born / Pablo Neruda -- Matthew XXV:30 ; Limits ; Poem of the gifts ; Rain ; Adrogué ; Chess ; To one no longer young ; Poem written in a copy of Beowulf ; To my reader / Jorge Luis Borges.
Local noteInscribed on front fly-leaf "for Betty and Dick [Richard Eberhart] with much affection at Christmas, 1978, Alastair [Reid]." Includes dust jacket. Stuart Wright Book Collection #193.25. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Richard Ghormley Eberhart Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections.
Acquisitions source Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2012
LCCN 78051846
ISBN0525230769
ISBN9780525230762

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Joyner Stuart Wright Collection PR6035.E4 W4 1978 ✔ Available Request Material