The Wild Braid
A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden
1 May 2007
Description
"A graceful and moving glimpse into a rare and giving artist's refined poetics, garden aesthetics, and spirituality."—Booklist
Throughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and tended gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations, none previously published, that took place between 2002 and 2004. Beginning with the garden, that "work of the imagination," the explorations journey through personal recollections, the creative process, and the harmony of the life cycle. A bouquet of poems and a total of 26 full-color photographs accompany the various sections. The Wild Braid received a 2006 American Horticultural Society Book Award.
Reviews
"No one who has ever gardened passionately will be a stranger to the sentiments Kunitz expresses about this act of domestic creation, but very few of us will ever come close to writing about it with his grace and clarity. This is indeed a book to cherish." — Kate Tyndall, Raleigh News & Observer
"A miracle." — Galway Kinnell
Awards
Winner — American Horticultural Society Book Award, 2006
Also By: Stanley Kunitz 
The Collected Poems
Paperback, 2003
"This volume may be the best that America has to offer today. Buy this book, read it, treasure it."—Philadelphia Inquirer
Inventions of Farewell: A Collection of Elegies
Hardback, 2001
Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected
Paperback, 2001
"Winner of the 1995 National Book Award, Passing Through confirms that the venerable doyen of American poetry is still a poet in his prime."—Atlantic Monthly