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

10 best books like The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden (Stanley Kunitz): How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry, Behind My Eyes [With CD], The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World, Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays, Otherwise: New and Selected Poems, The Blue Estuaries, Lives of the Poets, Drinking the Rain: A Memoir, The Darkness Around Us is Deep: Selected Poems, On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose

How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry
AuthorEdward Hirsch
ISBN0156005662
How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry and feeling. In language at once acute and emotional, distinguished poet and critic Edward Hirsch describes why poetry matters and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message can make a difference. In a marvelous reading of verse...
Behind My Eyes [With CD]
AuthorLi-Young Lee
ISBN0393065421
Combining sensitivity and eloquence with a broad appeal, Li-Young Lee walks in the footsteps of Stanley Kunitz and Billy Collins as one of the United States s most beloved poets. Playful, erotic, at times mysterious, his work describes the immanent value of everyday experience. Straightforward...
The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World
AuthorLinda Hogan
A bumper crop of the best writing by women on women and plants

Since prehistory, plants--as sources of food, medicine, clothing, beauty, and life itself--have been the province of women. Yet no previous book has attempted to bring together the rich literature this husbandry has inspired....
Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN0807068756
Within these pages Mary Oliver collects twenty-six of her poems about the birds that have been such an important part of her life-hawks, hummingbirds, and herons; kingfishers, catbirds, and crows; swans, swallows, and, of course, the snowy owl; among a dozen others-including ten poems original...
Otherwise: New and Selected Poems
AuthorJane Kenyon
ISBN1555972667
Otherwise collects a lifetime's work by one of contemporary poetry's most cherished talents. Opening with twenty new poems and including generous selections from Jane Kenyon's four previous books—From Room to Room, The Boat of Quiet Hours, Let Evening Come, and Constance—this collection...
The Blue Estuaries
AuthorLouise Bogan
ISBN0374524610
I found one truly memorable poem in the collection, a sharp observation transformed by a peculiar sensibility, a formula advocated elsewhere in the book but rarely followed. Even in this instance, the poem would have been better served if the last line had been removed.

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Lives of the Poets
AuthorMichael Schmidt
ISBN0375706046
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

In this stunning volume of epic breadth, Michael Schmidt connects the lives and works of more than 300 poets over the last 700 years--spanning distant shores from Scotland to Australia to the Caribbean, all sharing the English language.

Schmidt...
Drinking the Rain: A Memoir
AuthorAlix Kates Shulman
ISBN0865476977
A memoir of spiritualism and self-discovery from the acclaimed, award-winning author

At fifty, Alix Kates Shulman, author of the celebrated feminist novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, left a city life dense with political activism, family and literary community, and went to live alone...
The Darkness Around Us is Deep: Selected Poems
AuthorWilliam Stafford
ISBN0060969164

Robert Bly edited and introduced this short selection of William Stafford’s poems. It is much needed, since Stafford is an extremely prolific poet, and it is good to have an excellent judge like Bly to look through all the good stuff and choose the most characteristic and best. (It was Stafford’s...
On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose
AuthorTheodore Roethke
"One of the virtues of good poetry is the fact that it irritates the mediocre."

Theodore Roethke was one of the most famous and outspoken poets and poetry teachers this country has ever known. In this volume of selected prose, Roethke articulates his commitments to imaginative possibilities,...
The Layered Garden: Design Lessons for Year-Round Beauty from Brandywine Cottage
AuthorDavid L. Culp
ISBN1604692367
Brandywine Cottage is David Culp's beloved two-acre Pennsylvania garden where he mastered the design technique of layering and interplanting many different species in the same area so that as one plant passes its peak, another takes over. The result is a nonstop parade of color that begins with a tapestry...
Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden
AuthorDiane Ackerman
ISBN0060199865
In the mode of her esteemed bestseller A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman's new book, Cultivating Delight celebrates the sensory pleasures she discovers in her garden.

Ackerman delights in her garden through all the seasons. Whether she is deadheading flowers or glorying in...
Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden
AuthorEleanor Perenyi
A classic in the literature of the garden, Green Thoughts is a beautifully written and highly original collection of seventy-two essays, alphabetically arranged, on topics ranging from “Annuals” and “Artichokes” to “Weeds” and “Wildflowers.” An amateur gardener for over thirty...
Onward and Upward in the Garden
AuthorKatharine S. White
ISBN0807085618
Katharine White began working at The New Yorker in 1925, the year of its founding, and was an editor there for thirty-four years, shaping the careers of such writers as John O'Hara, Vladimir Nabokov, and Jean Stafford. Throughout and beyond those years she was also a gardener. In 1958, when her job as...
From the Ground Up: The Story of a First Garden
AuthorAmy Stewart
ISBN0312287674

Amy Stewart had a simple dream. She wanted a garden.

When she and her husband finished graduate school, they headed west to Santa Cruz, California. With little money in their pockets, they found a modest seaside cottage with a small backyard. It wasn’t much—a twelve-hundred-square-foot...
Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older
AuthorSydney Eddison
ISBN1604692669
From the winner of the National Garden Club's Award of Excellence

Although the garden may beckon as strongly as ever, the tasks involved—pulling weeds, pushing wheelbarrows, digging holes, moving heavy pots—become increasingly difficult, or even impossible, with advancing age....
Hip Logic
AuthorTerrance Hayes
ISBN0142001392
The second collection of poetry from the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award

Terrance Hayes is a dazzlingly original poet, interested in adventurous explorations of subject and form. His new work, Hip Logic, is full of poetic tributes to the likes of Paul Robeson,...
Your Native Land, Your Life
AuthorAdrienne Rich
ISBN0393310825
The book includes two extraordinary longer works: the self-exploratory "Sources" and "Contradictions—Tracking Poems," an ongoing index of an American woman's life.


The poet writes, "In these poems I have been trying to speak from, and of, and to, my country. To speak of a different...
The Lives of the Heart
AuthorJane Hirshfield
ISBN0060951699
Jane Hirshfield is coming to my village in a couple weeks so I thought I would read some of her work, on the suggestion of my friend and poet Jenn. This is my first experience of her work, and I thought it was bold to take on this subject (of love) and try to make something new of it. I very much liked the poems;...
News of the World
AuthorPhilip Levine
ISBN0307272230
A superb new collection from “a great American poet . . . still at work on his almost-song of himself” (The New York Times Book Review).

In both lively prose poems and more formal verse, Philip Levine brings us news from everywhere: from Detroit, where exhausted workers try to find a decent...
In Search of Small Gods
AuthorJim Harrison
ISBN1556593007
“Jim Harrison has probed the breadth of human appetites—for food and drink, for art, for sex, for violence and, most significantly, for the great twin engines of love and death. Perhaps no American writer better appreciates those myriad drives; since the publication of his first collection of...
Letters From Eden: A Year at Home, in the Woods
AuthorJulie Zickefoose
ISBN0618573089
At the age of seven, Julie Zickefoose knew that she wanted to paint birds for a living, and her lifelong dedication shows in her paintings, which are meticulously accurate as well as beautiful. The paintings used here, of scenes from her beloved home in southern Ohio, illuminate well-crafted essays...
Mrs. Whaley and Her Charleston Garden
AuthorEmily Whaley
ISBN0684843870
The vibrant, opinionated, and totally engaging voice of eighty-five-year-old Emily Whaley transforms a guided tour of one of the most visited private gardens in America into a magical adventure, alive with tidbits of advice and deeply moving reflections.Gardeners are not the only ones who will...
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