James Just: 4 books

Through this evocative collection of poems we spend a year with poet James Just, his wife Irina, and their two dogs in the mountains of Costa Rica. We feel fresh rhythms of sun and rain and wind. We discover exotic plants and animals. We connect with fellow adventurers from all over the world. We...

Sketches of Poás follows James Just's first book of poems, A Year of Days. Sketches of Poás is a collection of whimsical poems about the community living on the slopes of Volcán Poás - birds, reptiles, insects, dogs, humans too - all sharing a magical place of coffee fields and forests, wind and...

Forty years in the writing, Jame's Just's poem Meanders takes us on a journey of the heart and spirit. Through Northern California and Oregon, Europe and Central America, we share the adventure of the path to becoming human. Meanders is Just's third book of poetry, following A Year of Days...

The Book of Noah is poem of poems in three parts, recounting events unfolding over the course of one portentous year. Set in a village in the mountains of Costa Rica, the poems explore the relationship between humans and gods and open a window into the numinous of the everyday.