Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press (2003)

Limited Edition. Signed by Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser.

Fine in cloth.

Two voices of the American landscape create a remarkable suite of lyrics. Braided Creek contains 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.

Each time I go outside the world
is different. This has happened
all my life.

The moon put her hand
over my mouth and told me
to shut up and watch.

A nephew rubs the sore feet
of his aunt,
and the rope that lifts us all toward grace
creaks on the pulley.

Under the storyteller's hat
are many heads, all troubled.