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Hughes, Ted

The Mermaid's Purse

64 pp. | Knopf | March, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-375-80569-9 $$15.95 | Library ISBN 0-375-90569-3 $$17.99
(2) YA Illustrated by Flora McDonnell. There's a bleak undercurrent running through this cycle of twenty-eight brief poems concerning creatures of the sea, and some jolting tonal contrasts. McDonnell's bold drafting and impressionistic brush strokes capture the wildness of the sea and the poet's dark humor with sensitivity and panache. The hand-sized book is unusually appealing, with each poem set modestly on a black-and-white painting.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2000

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