The poems [in Merlin & the Snake's Egg] show a great regard for the young mind. The work is elegant, accessible, interesting and fresh in narration and content.

The range of the book is in itself an accomplishment. Singing trees weave lyric dreams, while the Winter Witch casts spells that "fill the dying year with the forest's moan." A strong mysticism and a mythic quality permeate the title poem….

[The] poems are never abstract and never maudlin, but always alert to the "human beingness" of the situation…. (p. 25)

Ardis Kimzey, "Living Poets Are Coming Back," in The New York Times Book Review (© 1978 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), April 30, 1978, pp. 25, 38.∗