Triskell Tales 22 Years of Chapbooks Author:Charles De Lint From Booklist — The body of short stories and poems presented here in order of composition consists mostly of gifts de Lint created for his wife. As such, it gives readers the opportunity to see how he honed his craft over the course of 22 years. By his own admission, some early work is fairly dreadful. Still, it is intriguing to watch de Lint sh... more »ift from using faerie motifs in the manner of Lord Dunsany to pronouncing them in his own voice, setting them in contemporary Ottawa, and integrating North American Indian themes. Furthermore, de Lint's development in verse parallels that in prose. Altogether, the volume reaffirms de Lint's mastery of short forms, and its contents read like variations on a theme, not as the same piece written over and over, as is the case with some similarly prolific writers' work.--Roland Green Copyright (c) American Library Association.« less