To Know a Place
To Know a Place : Poetry by Christopher Cokinos : Photography by Stephen Trimble
A 15-section poem with 15 Utah photographs.
In this special edition of “To Know a Place,” Terrain.org presents writings by six poets and essaysists from, about, and inspired by Mount St. Helens, that beautiful, temperamental lady the indigenous peoples call Loowit, that last erupted on May 18, 1980.
By Britten Traughber
On the rainy eastern side of the Big Island of Hawai‘i, the cycles of destruction and regeneration in Hawaiian Paradise Park (what locals refer to as HPP) are impossible to ignore, almost like watching a time-lapse video on fast forward. Physically, economically, and culturally, the forces of change in such a raw environment always remind you: this land, the sacred ‘aina, will reclaim itself.