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Alastair Reid is a poet, translator, essayist, and scholar of Latin American literature. He has been on the staff of The New Yorker since 1959 and has translated works by Pablo Neruda and Jorge Luis Borges.

Among his many books for children are A Balloon for a Blunderbuss, I Keep Changing, and Millionaires (all illustrated by Bob Gill), and Supposing (illustrated by Abe Birnbaum). In 2008 he published two career-spanning collections of work, Inside Out: Selected Poetry and Translations and Outside In: Selected Prose.

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Average rating: 4.28 · 1,074 ratings · 132 reviews · 32 distinct works

	Ounce Dice Trice by Alastair Reid, Ben Shahn (Illustrator) 4.44 avg rating — 63 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Supposing by Alastair Reid, Bob Gill (Illustrator) 3.62 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1973 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Fully Empowered by Pablo Neruda, Alastair Reid (Introduction) 4.37 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 1975 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Whereabouts: Notes on Being a Foreigner by Alastair Reid, Alistair Reid 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Weathering 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	To Be Alive! 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1966	My rating:
	Fairwater 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1957	My rating:
	Password: places, poems, preoccupations. 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1963	My rating:
	Oases: Poems and Prose 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1997	My rating:
	Extravagaria by Pablo Neruda, Alastair Reid (Translator) 4.44 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 1924 — 7 editions	My rating:

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“Only the curious have, if they live, a tale worth telling at all.”
― Alastair Reid

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“Supposing I went begging instead of going to school and drew pictures and sang songs on a street corner and people gave me money and one day my father came home and said he was ruined and I told him not to worry and led him to my room and showed him my trunk full of pennies and he laughed and laughed...”
― Alastair Reid, Supposing

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