W.S. Merwin
W.S. Merwin was a U.S. poet laureate, an environmental activist, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and the author of more than twenty-five books of poetry. He and his wife restored their Hawaii home, the site of a former pineapple plantation, to acres of native palm trees. He died in March 2019 at the age of ninety-one.
— From July 2019