{"product_id":"braided-creek-a-conversation-in-poetry","title":"Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBraided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJim Harrison\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781556591877\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eCopper Canyon Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2003\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e90\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"I think every person needs to own this book.\"--Naomi Shihab Nye\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBraided Creek \u003c\/i\u003econtains more than 300 poems exchanged in this longstanding correspondence. Wise, wry, and penetrating, the poems touch upon numerous subjects, from the natural world to the nature of time. Harrison and Kooser decided to remain silent over who wrote which poem, allowing their voices, ideas, and images to swirl and merge into this remarkable suite of lyrics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEach time I go outside the world\u003cbr\u003eis different. This has happened\u003cbr\u003eall my life.\u003cbr\u003e*\u003cbr\u003eThe moon put her hand\u003cbr\u003eover my mouth and told me\u003cbr\u003eto shut up and watch.\u003cbr\u003e*\u003cbr\u003eA nephew rubs the sore feet\u003cbr\u003eof his aunt, \u003cbr\u003eand the rope that lifts us all toward grace\u003cbr\u003ecreaks on the pulley.\u003cbr\u003e*\u003cbr\u003eUnder the storyteller's hat\u003cbr\u003eare many heads, all troubled.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"These little gems prove that less is often more.\"-- \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There are poems on the natural world, aging, dying, friendship, love and eros. There is abundant humor... There also is distilled wisdom.\"-- \u003ci\u003eHouston Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"So what we have here is a small book of finely etched verse by two experienced poets. It is something that many readers will want to carry around with them and dip into on occasion. Braided Creek is a vademecum or field guide for the soul.\"-- \u003ci\u003eBloomsbury Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Both Harrison and Kooser show a 'coming of wisdom with time.' Kooser has been diagnosed with cancer, which may in part account for the intensity of the language and the sweeping philosophical stance of these quiet poems by two gifted men.\"-- \u003ci\u003eRocky Mountain News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Here's a book of glorious, intimate tidbits... filled with such small yet expansive moments, perfectly defined.\"-- \u003ci\u003eThe Memphis Commercial Appeal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"For those who have ears to hear, infinity hums in the taut lines and compact images of this conversation in poetry. Seamless, poignant and profound, \u003ci\u003eBraided Creek\u003c\/i\u003e is a book worth listening to time and again.\"-- \u003ci\u003eThe Wichita Eagle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book is superb... Simple in its language, spare in its style, \u003ci\u003eBraided Creek\u003c\/i\u003e presents dozens of short poems that resonate with truth, pain and radiance. Grudgingly acknowledging aging and illness, the verses here also clutch tightly to moments of good cheer, of life lived with spirit and grit and determination.\"-- \u003ci\u003eThe Kansas City Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"It's a wonderful, rewarding book.\"-- \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2014, the Academy of American Poets asked each of their Chancellors to name an \"essential book\" and a \"beloved book\" and Naomi Shihab Nye's beloved book is \u003ci\u003eBraided Creek\u003c\/i\u003e: \"I also recommend \u003ci\u003eBraided Creek\u003c\/i\u003e because the poems are so tiny and so succulent, each one a transporting hinge for the mind's happiest refreshing moments. I think every person needs to own this book. It easily brings you back to writing when you have felt far away or confused. It clarifies your spirit. Take a quick dip into the mixed back-and-forth voices of these two masters and delight. I have given more copies of this book away as gifts than any other book. And I know for certain that many people have appreciated it greatly. So, why not everyone?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJim Harrison\u003c\/b\u003e is one of America's beloved writers. He is best known for a collection of novellas, \u003ci\u003eLegends of the Fall\u003c\/i\u003e, and the epic novel \u003ci\u003eDalva\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in western Montana and southern Arizona.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTed Kooser \u003c\/b\u003e won the Pulitzer prize for his poetry collection \u003ci\u003eDelights and Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e. 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