Kate Braid
March 12th, 2025
Some know Kate Braid for her poetry about the artists Emily Carr and Georgia O’Keeffe. Some are more familiar with her feminist memoirs on being a journeywoman carpenter. Now Braid explores women and aging in The Erotics of Cutting Grass: Recollections from a Well-Loved Life (Caitlin $24). As her publisher blurbs: “From weightlifting in her senior years to questioning why older people in love are seen as ‘cute,’ but not ‘hot’, … Kate’s stories are a refreshing take on what it means to age with audacity.” Braid’s keen observations are on display in this eleventh collection of her poems. 9781773861623
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