"Answer my riddle and I will give you my life! A sad riddle is best for me," says Guy, stranded in
Bohemia and desperately trying to keep from being eaten
"Catapulting Jack to Continents of ice- A snow image stuck fast in water like stone"
"Dropping down and down / On soft Bohemia" p. 12
"Eclipsing the moon, scorching the sky..."
"...February it will be / My snowghost's anniversary..." p. 18
"Give it quick in mine ear!" p. 16
His poor nose froze p. 10
"Into the lair of a bear / Who hugged Guy tight..." p. 14
Jack slept safe, enfolder in his brother's arms...
Ken, John, Bob... I am truly and deeply blessed
"...Love often takes the form of menance, and safe havens are reached, if they are reached at all, only after terrifying adventures." ~ from the forward by Stephen Greenblatt
New York Times review: "A Farewell, Whispered and Roared" click here
"On a bleak midwinter's night / The newest star! - blazing bright!
"Posthumous new book...written in memory of his brother, Jack, who died in 1995. This lovely if evanescent book — it deals with the great Sendakian themes of loss, danger and flight — also feels on an unspoken level like an elegy for his companion of a half-century, Eugene Glynn, who died in 2007." source
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"echoes of Shakespeare’s “Winter’s Tale,”...Shakespeare's late romance are absorbed, redistributed, and
"...Transformed into something rich and strange." ~ Forward by Stephen Greenblatt
"Unsettling potency"
Verses in an elegiac meter...Visionary worlds --
Widely recognized as among the greatest imaginative creations of our age..."
"eXquisite pictures in the manner of Fuseli or Blake.. eXpression of longing to be reunited with his dead brother, Jack..."
"Yet it’s a book that rewards repeat readings. Its charms are simmering and reflective ones. This moral fable may find its largest audience among adults." source
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