The father of Nicaraguan poetry (Drive Day 69 minus 14 years)

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Nicaragua: photo by Gary Geboy

It’s too far to make it to Managua in one day so we’re looking for the hometown of Central America’s most famous poet.

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The irony of Ruben Dario being known as the father of modernism does not escape us in this dusty outpost of the past.

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Follow this bonus-material blog and ride along on a one-year road trip that inspired the memoir The Drive: Searching for Lost Memories on the Pan American Highway. On sale now. Get yours through the buy-the-book links at the bottom of the landing page on my teresabrucebooks.com website or here or here. Planning a road trip? Buy the audiobook here. Like The Drive’s Facebook page and tweet back at me @writerteresa.

 

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