Sawi: Funny Essays, Stories and Poems on All Kinds of Heartbreaks

by Ada J. Loredo (editor), Joel Donato Ching Jacob (contributor), Cupkeyk (contributor)

Heartbreaks, especially the romantic kind, are inevitable in life. Imagination, however, can convert them into the fascinating stuff of lighthearted, even uproariously hilarious literature. This bilingual collection of essays, poems and stories was written by top writers - most of them young- in the country's best universities like U.P., Ateneo, De La Salle, and Siliman.

124 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Sam · Rating 4 out of 5]

I didn’t properly read the subtitle. lol!

The collection is well-written, as expected but…

I wanted desperately to cry. And I realized too late that this was supposed to (mostly) make light of the heartbreaks and lend to it’s ridiculousness

I appreciate that the collection was supposed to bring levity to the ‘sawis’ of the world, but I really wanted to feel that finger-tingling heartache.

I guess, despite age (and wisdom???) my view on romance will always be black and white—off to the sunset they ride or knife through the heart, please.

Nevertheless, I like books like these. After all, we’re never bereft of (un)love stories and “there’s a comfort to knowing that whatever you’re going through has happened to someone else, and that they have the words for it when you don’t”

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Personal faves
- How to write interesting fiction about the person who ate your heart for breakfast
- in the absence of eternity
- after kiukok’s lovers
- god’s just pissing
- once is quite enough
- mula sa troubadour ng puting rosas
- bitter ocampo
- laundry
- new tricks
- lily
- driven
- heart breaking
- timbulan
- weatherbeaten
- isang basic algorithm sa pagtangal ng love bug
- magtanong ka
- to clymenestra
- opposites attract