The Poem Forest
Poet W. S. Merwin and the Palm Tree Forest He Grew from Scratch

I read a recent poem by Carrie Fountain and enjoyed it enough to seek out some of her other work out and discovered that she wrote the poetic text for this beautifully illustrated children's book. It is about W.S. Merwin, another poet I was not familiar with, and his mission to build a palm forest i......more

A dignified, sensitively written and vibrantly illustrated story about the US Poet Laureate who spent forty years planting the world’s most comprehensive palm tree forest in Hawaii that he late gave to a conservancy.......more

Carrie Fountain (author) and Chris Turnham (illustrator) have created a beautiful and powerful book about the conservation efforts of Pulitzer-prize winner and poet laureate W. S. Merwin. He and his wife bought a parcel of wasteland on the island of Maui in Hawaii and restored it by planting a palm......more

This is a 3.5 for me. Bountiful digital illustrations consisting appropriately with plentiful greens accompany a tribute to one of the nation's Poet Laureates, W.S. Merwin, his pen name. As a young boy, William Stanley grew up longing for wilderness. He eventually found it in Hawaii in a most likely......more