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    Dear Universe: Poems on Love, Longing, and Finding Your Place in the Cosmos
    Dear Universe: Poems on Love, Longing, and Finding Your Place in the Cosmos
    Dear Universe: Poems on Love, Longing, and Finding Your Place in the Cosmos
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    Dear Universe: Poems on Love, Longing, and Finding Your Place in the Cosmos

    By Pierra Calasanz-Labrador

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    Dear Universe ... can you hear me?

    If Pierra Calasanz-Labrador's debut poetry collection The Heartbreak Diaries was equivalent to an "ugly cry," this second volume is an introspective journey, a quiet voice longing to be heard. Like stumbling upon an introvert's secret diary, these fifty poems chronicle fervent wishes, hidden fears, and everyday  acts of bravery that may sound uncannily familiar. 

    Whether you are searching for a soul mate, battling self-doubt, clearing out skeletons in your heart, or trying to chart your own course in an increasingly judgmental world, Dear Universe is an astute, empowering reminder that you are not alone. 

    Featuring illustrations by Frances Alvarez.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnvil Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateMay 14, 2018
    ISBN9789712734106

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      Dear Universe - Pierra Calasanz-Labrador

      Dear Universe

      Poems on love, longing, and finding your place in the cosmos

      Copyright to this digital edition © 2018 by Pierra Calasanz-Labrador

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the written approval from the copyright owner and the publisher.

      Published and exclusively distributed by

      ANVIL PUBLISHING, INC.

      7th Floor Quad Alpha Centrum

      125 Pioneer Street, Mandaluyong City

      1550 Philippines

      Trunk Lines: (+632) 477-4752, 477-4755 to 57

      Fax No.: (+632) 747-1622

      salesonline@anvilpublishing.com

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      www.anvilpublishing.com

      First printing, 2018

      Illustrations by Frances Alvarez

      Book design by R. Jordan P. Santos

      E-book formatting by Arvyn Cerézo

      ISBN 9789712734106 (e-book)

      Version 1.0.0

      For Toto, who is Home,

      and in loving memory of Cocoa Banana cat

      Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1: Hide & Seek

      Smokescreens

      Dear Universe

      All The Peels

      Recovery Food

      Blindsided

      Stray

      Chapter 2: Introverting

      Shut-In

      Staccato

      Killjoy

      E.T.

      Exchange Student

      Earphones

      Nocturnal Habitat

      Chapter 3: Black Holes

      Torpe

      Intensity 10

      Undercurrents

      Otanjoubi Omedetou

      Dogpaddle

      Frozen

      When The Sky Is Red

      Chapter 4: To Whom It May Concern

      The Beautiful and Strange

      Connect The Dots

      Prison Break

      This Little Piggy

      Jigsaw

      Chapter 5: The Games We Play

      Paper Roses

      Field Trip

      Tuesday Girl

      Charmed

      Listen

      War Games

      Chapter 6: Choose Your Own Adventure

      KonMari

      Dance Like Nobody’s Watching

      Off-kilter

      Unfollow

      Stones in My Pockets

      Journey

      Ode to Joy

      Sisterhood

      Darling

      Chapter 7: We are exactly where we are supposed to be.

      Sunset

      Training Days

      Mr. Wonderful

      Photographs

      Quiet

      Dawn

      Wings

      Familiar

      All Stars

      Epilogue: Shine

      New Year

      Acknowledgments

      About the Author

      About the Illustrator

      Introduction

      At a time when it is tempting to mistake platitudes for poems, that is, to equate simply making an apparently artless statement with literary craft, it is truly refreshing to read the poems of Pierra Calasanz-Labrador. The simplicity and brevity of her verses belie the deftness with which the poet creates tension through irony, evokes empathy through imagery, and inspires insight through the translation of the universal abstract into the personal concrete.

      The persona whose voice pervades Dear Universe is, of course, an introvert—one who waxes philosophical about "love, longing, and

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