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    In the Silence of Dreaming and Selected Poems
    In the Silence of Dreaming and Selected Poems
    In the Silence of Dreaming and Selected Poems
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    In the Silence of Dreaming and Selected Poems

    By Socorro Pasco

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    In the border of things that we all share within, I have included fragments of my island heritage of the Philippines. This is a collection of poetry that spans from 1994-2009.


    Although, it is a slim collection, I hope that the reader will find within its pages some luminosity.



    For the women both here in the Americas and in the Pacific Islands who continue to live their lives with courage and strength.



    For my Muse in whatever form she takes in this lifetime or the next. Salamat gid.



    For my sister and my family: you have my heart.



    -SP

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateApr 25, 2009
    ISBN9781462820382
    In the Silence of Dreaming and Selected Poems
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    Socorro Pasco

    Socorro Pasco is a Filipina American poet born in the Philippines who currently reside in Texas. She was a former editor of Inkshed Press at Texas A & M University. This is her first collection of poetry.

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      In the Silence of Dreaming and Selected Poems - Socorro Pasco

      In the Silence of Dreaming

      AND SELECTED POEMS

      1994-2009

      Socorro Pasco

      Copyright © 2009 by Socorro Pasco.

      Cover image by Shiraz Jafri.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      This book was printed in the United States of America.

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

      Xlibris Corporation

      1-888-795-4274

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      Orders@Xlibris.com

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      Contents

      Acknowlegments

      Birth

      Waking

      Eve

      Solitude

      The Night’s Stillness

      Rain

      Four Hundred Years

      This Is Not A Love Poem

      Houston

      Fire

      The Day Slowly Opened

      The Poet

      Drifting

      When The Mangoes Fell

      In The Silence Of Dreaming

      After The Volcano

      Desert Muse

      Her Hands

      How Do You Move

      Night

      Carving

      I Return To You

      Emerging

      Babae Ng Dagat

      Hothouse Flowers

      Storm

      The Day Fragmented

      Becoming

      In The Morning Light

      To Silay

      Sunday

      Empty Afternoons Of Silence

      I’ve Lost Count

      Natural Sensualities

      Albuquerque

      ACKNOWLEGMENTS

      In the border of things that we all share within, I have included fragments of my island heritage of the Philippines.

      For the women both here in the Americas and in the Pacific islands who continue to live their lives with courage and strength.

      For my Muse in whatever form she takes in this lifetime or

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