"A wonderful, rewarding book."-- Philadelphia Inquirer "These little gems prove that less is often more."-- Library Journal "There are poems on the natural world, aging, dying, friendship, love, and eros. There is abundant humor. There also is distilled wisdom."-- Houston Chronicle "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.
"-- Bloomsbury Review "This book is superb. Simple in its language, spare in its style, Braided Creek 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."-- Kansas City Star "Here's a book of glorious, intimate tidbits . filled with such small yet expansive moments, perfectly defined." -- Commercial Appeal "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, Braided Creek is a book worth listening to time and again."-- Wichita Eagle " [Braided Creek ] unfolds like a Japanese kaiseki feast, a procession of delectable morsels.
It is tempting to gobble them all at once, but a slow savoring leaves one with a sense of satiety and celebration."-- Foreword "They sound betimes like up-to-date imagists or haiku poets, pungent rural epigrammatists out of Jonathan Williams's Blues & Roots/Rue & Bluets and Wendell Berry's Sayings & Doings , or just two crusty old codgers. Their conversation always repays eavesdropping."-- Booklist " Braided Creek smooths together two delicate and taut voices, both singing in tune to a common good, a loftier goal, to be picked up like the poetry gauntlet thrown." -- onthetown "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." -- Rocky Mountain News.