num_pages: 255
description: From his celebrated seaside garden, a beloved poet-in his one-hundredth year-speaks about life, poetry, and the kindred spirit in all living things.Throughout his life Stanley Kunitz has been creating poetry and tending 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 twenty-six full-color 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-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 color photographs.
language: English
title: The Wild Braid Signed Limited Edition: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden
titlecomplete: The Wild Braid Signed Limited Edition: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden
genres: Biography, Memoir, Autobiography, Nature, Gardening, Biography Memoir, Poetry, Photography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 475
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award
category: Poetry
publisher: W. W. Norton