The Wild Braid

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A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden

By Stanley Kunitz

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The Wild Braid presents intimate conversations with Stanley Kunitz, exploring his lifelong passions for poetry and gardening. Recorded between 2002 and 2004, these dialogues journey from the garden — a "work of the imagination" — through recollections, creative processes, and reflections on life's cycles. The book includes a bouquet of poems and twenty-six full-colour photographs, capturing the themes of mortality, renewal, and transformation following a significant health crisis in 2003.
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Ideal for readers interested in poetry, gardening, and creative reflection, as well as those who appreciate meditations on life cycles and personal transformation.

"A graceful and moving glimpse into a rare and giving artist's refined poetics, garden aesthetics, and spirituality."—Booklist

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Throughout his life, Stanley Kunitz has been creating poetry and tending gardens. The Wild Braid 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 twenty-six full-colour photographs accompany the various sections.

In the spring of 2003, Kunitz experienced a mysterious health crisis from which, miraculously, he emerged in what he called a "transformed state." During this period, his vision of the garden—a constant source of solace and renewal—propelled him. The intimate, often witty conversations that followed this time are presented here in their entirety, as transcribed. Their central themes, circling mortality and regeneration, attest to Kunitz's ever-present sagacity and wit. "Immortality," he answers when asked. "It's not anything I'd lose sleep over."

26 colour photographs.

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"A miracle," praises Galway Kinnell, while Kate Tyndall of the Raleigh News & Observer notes, "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."

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780393329971

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 April 2007

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Contributors:

Photographs by Marnie Crawford Samuelson
With Genine Lentine

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 160.0mm

Height: 211.0mm

Weight: 332g

Pages: 144

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry Stanley Kunitz

About the Author

Stanley Kunitz, much-honored poet, was cofounder of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and of Poets House in New York City. He died in 2006. Marnie Crawford Samuelson lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Genine Lentine lives in Provincetown.