DELTA BABY & Two Sea Songs

by Richard Kennedy ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 15, 1979

The third of these three sea songs, ""The Wreck of the Linda Dear,"" is a humorous tall tale told by an ancient mariner who is sole survivor of a ship and crew otherwise totally devoured by a giant rat. In larger print and better company it could be fun. The first song, about a scurvy pirate crew captained by Stinky Pete, is similarly unserious; disburdened of Dabcovich's harsh, heavy woodcuts, it might slip by in the Linda Dear's wake. But the title song and centerpiece is something else: a cryptic and ungrammatical rhyme about an unidentified (royal?) baby rescued from a scene of blood and carnage--and it's swamped by Mikolaycak's pretentious jumbles and Kennedy's teasing references to a burning bush, a baby hidden in the rushes, and a nightingale's tale of ""midnight seed and daylight peach.

Pub Date: March 15, 1979

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Addison-Wesley

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1979

Categories: NONFICTION