33 Days of Passacaglia: A collection of poetry

By Annora Vashti and Zita Reyninta Sari

33 Days of Passacaglia speaks for a real experience and a real life journey. It’s honest, unfiltered, and wholly personal. All of us have lost something in life, and though we might be worlds apart, we’d agree that hope will always keep us going through another day. The book is like a dear friend that share similar stories with you, that will hug you in the shoulders and reassure you, “I’ve hurt too, but don’t worry, we’ll get through this together.”

-Zita Reyninta Sari

33 Days of Passacaglia is a collection of 33 poems, separately narrating different memories about not only doubts, anxiety, and fear, but also hope, faith, and bravery. The word "passacaglia", with its Italian and Spanish origins, culturally refers to a dance performed in the streets. This book invites readers from all walks of life to keep on living in gratitude, regardless of any sorrow haunting and their desperate efforts of happiness-hunting.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Annora Vashti
• Release date: Mar 13, 2019

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33 DAYS OF PASSACAGLIA

by Annora Vashti

Copyright © 2019 by Annora Vashti

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

01. Summer

02. Suddenly

03. Nerve

04. Gender

05. Love

06. Shut Up

07. Promise

08. Forget

09. Remember Me

10. Month

11. Dream

12. Room

13. Blanket

14. Dark

15. Infection

16. Tree

17. Window

18. Past

19. Slow

20. World

21. Because

22. Wedding

23. Old/New

24. Garden

25. Destiny

26. Friends

27. For Prince (Not So) Charming

28. The Guest

29. The Visitor

30. Fraction

31. Stitches

32. Prayer

33. Zero

INTRO

When I first met Annora, she was jet-lagged and quiet. Her words came out in mumbles. I briefly wondered whether we could get along.

Then I found out that her thoughts are better expressed through songs and written words. She is the very definition of musical. Her life, her works, her poems, are melodic movement. And that’s all reflected in 33 Days of Passacaglia.

She begins this book with an allegro, a bright-eyed happy tune, like the opening of Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt. Then she moves to an adagio, showing her attempts to solve the mystery of love and life in general. Sometimes there are crescendos and decrescendos of emotions,