The Compass Rose

Alastair Reid [1926-] is a poet and essayist and translator, probably best known for his English language versions of Neruda, Borges etc. ...

"In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old p...

The underlying local context of much of my aesthetic has always been landscape. I grew up mostly in Napa, California, at the lower ...

The question arises, what was the central theme of these pieces? The title, Wittgenstein's Door , was derived from a monograph on Ludw...

I suspect that the "infernal music I was thinking of in my "Night Piece" to have been Alexander Scriabin's. Scriabin ,...

Ordinarily, I'm not fond of cocktails "lite" or those which are so watered down with fruit juice or soda, or just plain dilut...

Lyn Hejinian published my pamphlet, Wittgenstein's Door , in her Tuumba Press series, in September 1980. I can't remember now w...