The wild braid : a poet reflects on a century in the garden / Stanley Kunitz ; with Genine Lentine ; photographs by Marnie Crawford Samuelson

Includes bibliographical references (p. 144).

Turning the soil -- Woods, fields, farms -- Provincetown -- A living poem -- The wilderness -- The web of creation -- Renewal -- List of poems: The portrait -- Lamplighter: 1914 -- My mother's pears -- The testing-tree -- Route six -- The mulch -- The snakes of September -- The layers -- Raccoon journal -- Touch me -- The long boat -- The round.

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.