This is an exercise in love, an attempt at developing taste, a test of how sweet a word can be, an ode to moments. This is a manifestation of slowness and quiet and sunshine, early mornings and late evenings, glad memories and slender times. This is yearning and giving, an extended meditation on letters, what they can and cannot do for one's being. LOVE LETTERS TO THE WORLD — a series of 120 lyrical prose poems — addresses the world as body, concept, stranger. Unabashedly lyrical, epistolary, and plotless, this hybrid collection may appeal to those who are fans of Kahlil Gibran, Rabindranath Tagore, and Mary Ruefle. It is a quiet celebration and exploration of life, love, language, and one's place in the world.

Meia Geddes was born in China, raised in Sacramento, and lives in Boston. She graduated from Brown University and has been the recipient of a Fulbright grant, and is currently completing her master's in library and information science, folding paper cranes for her small business Make-A-Crane, and working as an assistant at MIT Sloan School of Management. Her novella, THE LITTLE QUEEN, is forthcoming in 2017. She can be found @meiageddes or www.meiageddes.com.