Poet- translator Alastair Reid's final postscript

The Scottish poet, translator and essayist Alastair Reid, who wrote for The New Yorker for more than half a century, died last Sunday in Manhattan from a gastric bleed he suffered during treatment for pneumonia, according to family sources. Often described as a man with "itchy feet," Reid lived, often not for very long, in a variety of places - Switzerland, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, the Dominican Republic and England among them - before settling in Greenwich Village for the last decades of his life.

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