Poetry. For years Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser exchanged letters and poems, then Kooser was diagnosed with cancer. "Ted's poetry was overwhelmingly vivid," Harrison recalls. "Then we decided to correspond in short poems because that was the essence of what we wanted to say to each other." 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 decide to remain silent about who wrote each poem, allowing their voices, ideas, and images to swirl and merge into this remarkable suite of lyrics.