In the Garden. Six Poems by Stanley Kunitz

Bremen, ME: Red Angel Press, 2013. Signed, limited edition, one of 40 copies, each signed and numbered by the artist and designer and printer, Ronald Keller, in pencil on the colophon page, all on Nideggen paper with three full-page wood-engravings printed in color on Japanese paper. Page size: 9-3/4 x 8 inches; 24pp. of Nideggen plus 6 pages of Japanese paper. Bound: by the artist in green cloth with wood-engraved decorative image of leafy vine on front panel in dark green, repeating titlepage decoration, author and title in black on spine. Ronald Keller's most recent book is a selection of six poems from Stanley Kunitz' last book, THE WILD BRAID: A POET REFLECTS ON A CENTURY IN THE GARDEN (2005) and THE COLLECTED POEMS (2000).
Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (1905-2006) was appointed Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress twice and awarded almost every major literary prize as well as helping found the Poets House in New York. His writings served as the basis for the Library Bill of Rights, adopted by the ALA. All of these intellectual pursuits and accomplishments were accompanied by a life-long love of gardening and the natural world, reflected in his verse. The poems selected for this lovely book concisely and cogently display the poet's love for the natural world and its necessity in his life.