Sketches of Poás

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 rain, sun and stars, in tropical Costa Rica.

Artist Gesa Emde provided the cover art and illustrations for A Year of Days, and now has created the cover rendering of Volcán Poás and illustrations to accompany each of the poems in Sketches of Poás. Emde lives and paints in a village in the Vosges Mountains in France, where she and her husband operate the art center Pas de Deux.