What Is a Garden?

by W.S. Merwin

Book Overview

Poet and environmentalist W. S. Merwin moved to Hawaii in 1976 and has spent the last forty years planting nineteen acres with more than eight hundred species of palm, creating a lush garden on a ruined former pineapple plantation. Now the Merwin Conservancy, this land has served as Merwin's muse and his passion, appearing as a consistent subject of his poems and his germinal essays on conservation. What Is a Garden? collects eight of Merwin's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611175674
• ISBN13: 9781611175677
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.7" x 9.6"