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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
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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.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This has to be my all time favourite book.
When I was first given this book by an American friend I randomly opened it at page 64 where Stanley talks about compost. Any man who writes lovingly about his compost heap is my kind of man!
The photographs, the prose and the peotry stand alone to make this the perfect book for anyone and anytime. One can flick through and enjoy the pictures or settle down to read the prose. Many of the poems I know by heart now and they resonate with me as I go through life.
I am very surprised that in England this wonderful writer and poet passed us by without the recognition he deserved. I do wish I had been able to meet him and talk about gardens.
This book makes a perfect gift for anyone interested in gardens, nature or life.
When I was first given this book by an American friend I randomly opened it at page 64 where Stanley talks about compost. Any man who writes lovingly about his compost heap is my kind of man!
The photographs, the prose and the peotry stand alone to make this the perfect book for anyone and anytime. One can flick through and enjoy the pictures or settle down to read the prose. Many of the poems I know by heart now and they resonate with me as I go through life.
I am very surprised that in England this wonderful writer and poet passed us by without the recognition he deserved. I do wish I had been able to meet him and talk about gardens.
This book makes a perfect gift for anyone interested in gardens, nature or life.
Format:Paperback
This is a charming, wise and satisfying book, beautifully conceived and designed. Anyone interested in the springs of poetic creativity should read this book. It distils a lifetime of thought about the nature of poetry and poetry writing, expertly transcribed by the author from a summer of interviews with the poet, presented in short chapters, quotations, poems and photographs of Stanely Kunitz in his garden. Highly recommended.
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47 of 48 people found the following review helpful
"We who are so young have neither seen so much...
5 Jun 2005
Format:Hardcover
Dinitia Smith interviewed Stanley Kunitz and Genine Lentine about this book. Her article appears in the NY Times Book- Review. In this article Kunitz speaks about the making of the book, about poetry, about gardening. The most moving part of the interview was a poem which he read to Smith, a poem written for his wife who died two years ago at the age of ninety- three.
He read the poem to Smith, and she comments in the middle.
Summer is late, my heart.
Words plucked out of the air
some forty years ago
when I was wild with love.
He came to the poem's haunting conclusion:
Darling, do you remember
the man you married? Touch me,
remind me who I am.
I was moved by the poem.
It is also moving to think of someone reaching one - hundred years of age, and still writing poetry.
Kunitz says that he understands the necessity of death as the world would become just ' old wrecks' were everyone to go on without end.
He speaks as Borges does of wanting to become 'language' or ' part of the language'.
Aside from the poetry I believe many people will want to possess this book simply because it in some way represents a triumph of the human spirit and will.
"We who are so young, have neither seen so much, nor lived so long."
He read the poem to Smith, and she comments in the middle.
Summer is late, my heart.
Words plucked out of the air
some forty years ago
when I was wild with love.
He came to the poem's haunting conclusion:
Darling, do you remember
the man you married? Touch me,
remind me who I am.
I was moved by the poem.
It is also moving to think of someone reaching one - hundred years of age, and still writing poetry.
Kunitz says that he understands the necessity of death as the world would become just ' old wrecks' were everyone to go on without end.
He speaks as Borges does of wanting to become 'language' or ' part of the language'.
Aside from the poetry I believe many people will want to possess this book simply because it in some way represents a triumph of the human spirit and will.
"We who are so young, have neither seen so much, nor lived so long."
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Another Book on Kunitz's Crown
14 Oct 2005
Format:Hardcover
Stanley Kunitz is one hundred years old this year and, if that it's not enough reason to rejoice, he's also published a book, thoughtfuy aided by Genine Lentine, in which he shares his two loves, gardening and writing poetry. And if I name these two passions of Kunitz's in such order is because the garden is at the center of his thought here.
Accompanied by interesting photographs -some are remarkable portraits of Stanley- Kunitz words tell the story of his legendary Provincetown garden, and in the process he offers those lessons to his poetic insight.
The result is a brief book of love for craft, in this case what caring after trees teaches you and what writing a poem entails and demands from his maker.
I'm honored and elated to be reading some new words from such wise elder of the poetic word.
Accompanied by interesting photographs -some are remarkable portraits of Stanley- Kunitz words tell the story of his legendary Provincetown garden, and in the process he offers those lessons to his poetic insight.
The result is a brief book of love for craft, in this case what caring after trees teaches you and what writing a poem entails and demands from his maker.
I'm honored and elated to be reading some new words from such wise elder of the poetic word.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Great gift for any parent or gardener!
25 July 2005
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I was back "home" with my folks this weekend and my dad really has been enjoying this book (shipped to him for Father's Day)as well. Mr. Kunitz reflections on his amazing life experience are outstanding. I fell in love with the book as well. Definitely give it 5 stars. Enjoy :)
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