FOR TWENTY YEARS, Robert Henry Poulin's poetry has electrified readers with its power, imagery and emotion. Now comes Poulin's first collection of haiku and other forms in The Last Leaf Decides, poems of the moment which he published in literary outlets in the 1990s while his wife suffered from and ultimately lost her battle with breast cancer. Presented in startling simplicity, with each poem highlighted on its own page to allow the reader singular focus and connection, The Last Leaf Decides will take you through one man's emotional cataclysm-from the joy of finding true love, into the despair of watching his beloved waste away and perish, to the struggle with how to feel again. Through it all, Poulin maintains the style and insight that have made him a unique storyteller in the world of poetry. Full of vivacity, even in sorrow, The Last Leaf Decides will leave you breathless at the power of the human spirit to rise again after the most crushing of losses.