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    Ounce Dice Trice Alastair Reid Poet Alistair Reid and beloved artist Ben Shahn’s marvelous exploration of the nooks and crannies of language, real and imagined, through obscure, esoteric, and invented words for familiar things that are as mind-bending as they are tongue-twisting. It’s part Lewis Carroll, part Shel Silverstein, part something entirely its own and entirely refreshing. The title comes from the playful alternative words bored shepherds used when they grew tired of counting their sheep the usual way.

    Ounce Dice Trice

    Alastair Reid

    Poet Alistair Reid and beloved artist Ben Shahn’s marvelous exploration of the nooks and crannies of language, real and imagined, through obscure, esoteric, and invented words for familiar things that are as mind-bending as they are tongue-twisting. It’s part Lewis Carroll, part Shel Silverstein, part something entirely its own and entirely refreshing.

    The title comes from the playful alternative words bored shepherds used when they grew tired of counting their sheep the usual way.

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