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Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden »

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Authors: Stanley Kunitz, Genine Lentine, Marnie Crawford Samuelson
ISBN-13: 9780393061413, ISBN-10: 0393061418
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: September 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Stanley Kunitz

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.

Book Synopsis

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

Table of Contents

Turning the soil11
Woods, fields, farms15
Provincetown39
A living poem69
The wilderness85
The web of creation95
Renewal111
List of poems
The portrait
Lamplighter : 1914
My mother's pears
The testing-tree
Route six
The mulch
The snakes of September

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