Goodreads asked Kate Braid:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Kate Braid My last book, "Elemental," was a book of poetry. Chapters were Fire, Earth, Water, Air and (of course, for a carpenter) Wood. I got the idea when I was looking through unpublished poems, and realized they were mostly about the elements I'd been working intensely with for 15 years.
The new book, "Hammer and Nail" (out this fall with Caitlin) is a book of short notes, stories, observations and essays about that time.

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