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There Is Always a Volcano Before You: Poems for Mount St. Helens and the Cascade Range
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781968610067
Publisher: Poetry Box
Published: Nov 4 2025
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In this posthumously published collection of poems by beloved poet, Christine Colasurdo, the reader is invited to share in her treasured memories of growing up in the 70s spending summers at Spirit Lake on the north side of Mount St. Helens, as well as the year she spent working at Harmony Falls Lodge. Through the lens of Colasurdo's poetry, you will also relive the volcano eruption on May 18, 1980, followed by the continued regeneration of this special place. There Is Always a Volcano Before You is a lasting gift left by this poet for anyone who loves the Cascade Range as much as she did.
Early Praise:
This book is a treasure! Christine's keen observational powers and understanding of nature give us rich glimpses of volcanic beauty and wonder.-MARCY COTTRELL HOULE, wildlife biologist
The poems in this book live as Christine lived, savoring history, natural history, memory, sensation in place, and a grace-filled singing imagination to knit all these to the page.
-KIM STAFFORD, author of As the Sky Begins to Change
Each poem is an original encomium to the mountain Christine knew and loved and never stopped loving. If you thought you knew Mt. St. Helens, or never did, seek here to find her-you need look no farther.
-ROBERT MICHAEL PYLE, author of Chinook & Chanterelle
Christine's writing is a gift to us all, splendidly painting the cherished pre-eruption landscape of Mount St. Helens and reawakening a magical place remembered through her living legacy.
-ALYSA ADAMS, Washington State Parks Mount St. Helens Visitor Center
Her poetry guides us through those dark ashes back into the light, weaving a common and luminous thread throughout nature's extraordinary creations.
-LAURA J. (BERRY ) BERNARD, Harmony Falls Lodge Inn Keeper, 1974 -1980
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