WHEREABOUTS NOTES ON BEING A FOREIGNER
ALASTAIR REID
Alastair Reid
Whereabouts Notes on Being a Foreigner
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WHEREABOUTS NOTES ON BEING A FOREIGNER
ALASTAIR REID
Alastair Reid
Whereabouts Notes on Being a Foreigner
White Pine Press
Paperback edition © 1990 Alastair R e i d
A h a r d c o v e r edition o f this b o o k w a s published in 1987 b y N o r t h P o i n t Press and is reprinted here b y arrangement with them.
ISBN I - 8 7 7 7 2 7 - I O - 5
C o p y r i g h t © 1963, 1 9 7 5 , 1976, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1987 b y Alastair R e i d
" D i g g i n g U p S c o t l a n d , " " H a u n t i n g s , " "Basilisks' E g g s , " and " N o t e s f r o m a Spanish V i l l a g e " first appeared in The New Yorker, "In M e m o r i a m , A m a d a " in the New York Re view of Books, and " O t h e r People's H o u s e s " in House & Gar den. " N o t e s o n B e i n g a F o r e i g n e r " is reprinted f r o m Pass words: Places: Poems, Preoccupations (Atlantic/Little, B r o w n , 1963). T h e p o e m s , " S p e a k i n g a F o r e i g n L a n g u a g e , " " S c o t l a n d , " " T h e A c a d e m y , " " M y Father D y i n g " and " T h e M a n s e , " are reprinted f r o m Weathering: Poems and Transla tions ( D u t t o n , 1978).
D e s i g n b y Watershed D e s i g n
C o v e r a r t w o r k b y Elaine L a M a t t i n a
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forJohn Alexander Coleman and Thomas Colchie se todos fossem no mundo iguais a voces
Contents
FOREWORD
3
NOTES O N BEING A FOREIGNER
6
DIGGING UP SCOTLAND HAUNTINGS
7