To Compostela and Beyond! A Poet’s Chronicle of the Camino de Santiago

by Susana Porras; Thelma T. Reyna

Publisher:

Resource Publications

, 2021

Overview

Susana Porras’s journey over the Camino de Santiago with her seventy-three-year-old father was a life-changing journey filled with awe-inspiring scenery, spiritual awakening, and lots of cafe con leche. Come with them as they travel physically, spiritually, and historically along this five-hundred-mile Camino. Take in the scenery, learn about its thousand-year history of clerics and kings, and of course, don’t forget to stop and savor the tortillas.

Praise for To Compostela and Beyond!

“Porras’s sonnets ignite the senses and capture the rhythm of a Camino day. The book summons memories of Caminos walked and anticipation of paths yet traveled, revealing the landscape, cuisine, prayers, and cultural history of the Way of St. James. Readers will feel the uncommon spiritual connections that are awakened as daughter and father make new pilgrim friends together on the road to Santiago.”

—Kathleen E. Jenkins, author of Walking the Way Together: How Families Connect on the Camino de Santiago



“This journey along the Camino de Santiago is a very real journey, and still, a metaphor for life. This diary, presented as poetry, provides poignant glimpses of a journey of a saint, a journey of a woman and her father, the journey of life. It is not about finishing, it is—as we have been told so often—all about the quality of the journey. Here we have the sweet poetic verse artfully interspersed with the details of a tour guide. To Compostela and Beyond! is a pleasant and refreshing work that should both inspire and motivate. . . . This is a wonderful addition to your bookshelf—and your backpack.”

—Christopher Nyerges, author of Extreme Simplicity and How to Survive Anywhere

Product Details

• Title: To Compostela and Beyond! A Poet’s Chronicle of the Camino de Santiago
• Authors: Susana Porras, Thelma T. Reyna
• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2021
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781725287617, 9781725287594, 9781725287600, 1725287617, 1725287595, 1725287609
• Resource ID: LLS:9781725287617
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T20:28:10Z

About the Authors

Susana Porras is a poet, writer, and community organizer. In 2010, she was named one of The Magazine’s 50 Women of Influence for her dedication to effecting innovative ways of rebuilding neighborhoods in her hometown of Pasadena, California. Susana has traveled extensively throughout Europe and Central America, putting down roots in both the South of France and Guatemala. She is fluent in both French and Spanish.

Susana earned her MA in sociology and a second BA in French at California State University, Los Angeles. Her love of learning has given her an appetite for cultural appreciation and an understanding of social nuances, creating a lifelong traveler and chronicler of adventures both at home and abroad.