Pura Vida

By Dana Larkin Sauers

Through lovely phrasing and pinpoint description, the brief, open form poems of Pura Vida record Dana Larkin Sauers impressions of a 2012 service trip to Costa Rica. Her poems describe her journey in vivid sensory images of the food: cheese that hang like softballs at the roadside market. She captures the voices of the children at the school, her companions both living and dead, and she opens the eyes of the reader to the lush beauty of Costa Rica. Living once, living twice, we recall through our work what happened to us, learning in this way the events true meaning. The poem Wesley McNair said this, and it certainly applies to the moving poems in Pura Vida. Anne Higgins

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 28, 2012
• ISBN: 9781479762910

Dana Larkin Sauers

DANA LARKIN SAUERS, Hanover, Pennsylvania’s second Poet Laureate, has dedicated her life to the celebration and discipline of language. Poet, educator, editor, art advocate, her 2012 trip abroad revealed an inner vocation to serve the poor in Central and South America. Sauers resides in Hanover with her husband Kent and is joyfully anticipating her new adventure as grandmother.

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Dana Larkin Sauers

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Copyright © 2013 by Dana Larkin Sauers.

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