Ounce, dice, trice
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (848 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0007DFBGS |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 57 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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He was best known for his socially and politically informed artwork, including a famous series of paintings depicting the trial of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. In 2008 he published two career-spanning collections of work, Inside Out: Selected Poetry and Translations and Outside In: Selected Prose.Ben Shahn (1898–1969) was a painter, muralist, print-maker, and illustrator. His
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. Accompanied by Ben Shahn’s glorious drawings, Ounce Dice Trice is a book of endless delights, not to mention the only place where you can find the answer to the question: What is a gongoozler? Well, all I can say is quoz.. 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
"Five Stars" according to Alarik Skarstrom. A wonderful book.. the wonderful world of words My favorite pick for holiday gift-giving, appealing for wordlovers of all ages, is the New York Review of Books Classics reissue of poet Alastair Reed's OUNCE DICE TRICE. NYRB are great curators and always choose wonderful old treasures to reissue, and this is no exception. Plus the books themselves are of such high quality that they will be sure to be loved for many more years to come.OUNCE DICE TRICE is an exuberant exploration of words - real, imaginary, sense and nonsense - and will be great for youn. "Delicious Language Play" according to Ironplow. I got this as a gift when I was 8 in 1958 and I have treasured it ever since. Great fun playing with language, and not just for kids. It opened up the possiblity that our language is not just a given, but can be expanded and altered as needed. And that there are many things in the world not yet noticed and not yet named. Many years later, the novel Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin became an excellent and more advanced source on this theme.
Alastair himself has had great fun with words, both poetically and prosaically.” –Los Angeles Times “If you like nonsense words with meanings they ought to have then you’ll like this book. A highly-unusual treat for ages 6 to 100.” —Orange Marmalade Books "For decades, New Yorker writer Alastair Reid has been collecting words, weird ones. Illustrated masterfully by artist Ben Shahn. In Ounce, Dice, Trice, the words play tricks on each other and on the reader. Reid twists them into rhymes and draws odd connections between them in this book part dictionary, part gonomony receptacleWith black-and-white sketches by pai