Book excerpt: Poetry. Australian ethnohistorian Greg Dening argues that there are two views that define the Pacific: a view from the sea (the view of those who arrived from elsewhere) and the view from the land (those who were already there). THINGS OF EACH POSSIBLE RELATION HASHING AGAINST ONE ANOTHER is a series of poems that opens with the view from the sea and ends with the view from the land and are about the ecological hashing that happens as these two views meet in Hawai'i.