Witness: The Ecological Poetry of W.S. Merwin by Larry Cameron and John Carpenter

Witness: The Ecological Poetry of W.S. Merwin,” is a documentary film by Larry Cameron and John Carpenter about the emergence of W.S. Merwin’s environmental consciousness. In this film made in 1997 at his home on Maui’s north shore, W.S. Merwin shares his insight into the inextricable connections between humans and the natural world, articulates his own “gardener’s approach” to restoring land back to wilderness, and reads selections of his poetry.