ABSTRACT
Upon Traveling to Nosara emerged from an incident I observed on a highway while leaving the Greater Metropolitan Area of San José, Costa Rica. At the time I was teaching in the Nicoya Peninsula and working on my undergraduate thesis – a compilation of poems reflecting on experiences of everyday violence in Costa Rica, Cuba, and Chile. While I was not studying anthropology then, this poem, and poetry in general, has continued to help me think about and write against the social production of death in Colombia, the site of my doctoral work.
