{"id":32,"date":"2005-05-19T13:03:54","date_gmt":"2005-05-19T17:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherrycoated.com\/wordpress\/?p=32"},"modified":"2005-05-19T13:03:54","modified_gmt":"2005-05-19T17:03:54","slug":"wild-braid-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/books\/wild-braid-press","title":{"rendered":"Wild Braid press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?path=ASIN\/0393061418&amp;link_code=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=webliminalbooksi&amp;creative=9325\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/0393061418.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA few stories are starting to appear about the new book &#8220;The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden&#8221; by Stanley Kunitz and, our friend Genine Lentine.<\/p>\n<p>In the NY Times: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/05\/19\/books\/19kuni.html\" title=\"A Poet in Winter Relishes Spring in His Garden - New York Times\">A Poet in Winter Relishes Spring in His Garden &#8211; New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stanley Kunitz, Pulitzer Prize winner, poet laureate of the United<br \/>\nStates &#8211; twice, the first time from 1974 to 1976, when the title was<br \/>\n&#8220;consultant in poetry,&#8221; the second in 2000 at the age of 95 &#8211; will turn<br \/>\n100 this summer. And he is still hard at work, he says, in his office<br \/>\nand his garden.<\/p>\n<p>In The Boston Globe: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/magazine\/articles\/2005\/04\/17\/earth_angel\/\" title=\"Boston.com \/ News \/ Boston Globe \/ Magazine \/ Earth Angel\">Boston.com \/ News \/ Boston Globe \/ Magazine \/ Earth Angel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although Stanley Kunitz began spending summers in Provincetown in 1957,<br \/>\nhe didn&#8217;t buy a house there until 1962. It was on Commercial Street in<br \/>\nthe West End, with about 2,000 square feet of front yard. Or, rather,<br \/>\nsandbank: It lacked even a single blade of grass.<\/p>\n<p>An AP story on Yahoo! News: <a href=\"http:\/\/dailynews.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20050511\/ap_en_ot\/books_kunitz_centennial\/nc:785\" title=\"Kunitz Works on Poetry Ahead of Tribute - Yahoo! News\">Kunitz Works on Poetry Ahead of Tribute &#8211; Yahoo! News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s harder as the years go by,&#8221; Kunitz says. &#8220;One is always looking<br \/>\nfor something to say that hasn&#8217;t been said before, that doesn&#8217;t seem to<br \/>\nbe an imitation of the old work. It is always a search for something<br \/>\n&#8230; that is representative of the best you can do. And if it isn&#8217;t<br \/>\nthat, it isn&#8217;t worth publishing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few stories are starting to appear about the new book &#8220;The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden&#8221; by Stanley Kunitz and, our friend Genine Lentine. In the NY Times: A Poet in Winter Relishes Spring in His Garden &#8211; New York Times Stanley Kunitz, Pulitzer Prize winner, poet laureate [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}