Ishle Yi Park

Angel & Hannah (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel in Verse

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A brilliant novel-in-verse that does for Romeo and Juliet what Hamilton did for the American musical: the unforgettable love story of a striving interracial couple in the outer boroughs of New York City. Hannah, a Korean American girl from Queens, New York, and Angel, a Puerto Rican boy from Brooklyn, fall in love in the spring of 1993. Hannah, who comes from a strict Korean home, meets Angel, a free and beautiful boy, at a quinceañera: Beyond flushed, sweating bodies pushed, pushing like cattle below black & buzzing speakers, under a torn pink streamer loose as a tendril of hair--lush-- his eyes. Darkluminous. Warm. A blush floods her. Hannah sucks in her breath, but can't pull back. Music fades. A hush he's a young buck in the underbrush, still in a disco ball dance of shadow & light Their forbidden love instantly and wildly blooms along the Jackie Robinson Expressway. Told in seasons as opposed to Acts, this re-imagining of Romeo and Juliet holds all of the tension and cadence of blank verse while adding dynamic and expressive language, creating new kinds of engrossing and magnetic forms. The hip-hop sonnets and poems are dynamic, arresting, observant, and magical, conveying the intimacies and sacrifices of love and addiction and the devastating realities of struggle and loss. Committed to cultural details and the vernacular of Queens and Brooklyn, this is a hip-hop love story, not of the Capulets and the Montagues, but two New York City kids trying to survive and grow within their families and communities, driven by an all-consuming love.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780593134344
• Artikelnr.: 60045033

Autorenporträt

Ishle Yi Park is the first woman to become poet laureate of Queens, New York. An award-winning poet, singer, hula dancer, surfer, certified yoga teacher, lomilomi practitioner, and mother, she's traveled the world reading and performing at universities and writing festivals. Park has organized benefits and shared the stage with other activists, including Sonia Sanchez and Angela Davis. She is of Korean ancestry, and both her daughters were born and are now being raised on the Hawai'ian islands.

Rezensionen

Ishle Yi Park speaks to us from the most tender, furious, and emotionally raw space in her breathtaking novel in verse. Angel & Hannah makes love feel revolutionary and desire feel like embattled truth. Reading it, I was often breathless, believing in the brilliance that is the bruised wonder of youth. Park brings us as close to a heart s fire as we are willing to go and leaves us soaring over the possibility of a new dream. Tina Chang, award-winning poet and author of Hybrida

I love the way that verse and form offer a type of restraint, inside of which the imagination of both writer and reader can flourish. Ishle Yi Park does a stunning job of using bursts of language and imagery to reconceptualize and reframe a familiar narrative. I loved sinking into the world of this book. I could feel the seasons changing. Hanif Abdurraqib, award-winning author of A Fortune for Your Disaster and Go Ahead in the Rain

Angel & Hannah is a gorgeously written, unforgettable, sweet, and wild love story. In the heart of Queens and Brooklyn, we feel the electricity of a first love, race and culture, desire and trouble, as the young lovers come alive, stunned in sweetness. Park writes, Why are they in love, you ask? Why does water love sky? Moon chase sun? Light reflect light? The brilliant, cinematic verse and boundless heart let us breathe in the music of Angel and Hannah s grace and grief. I love and recommend this book with my whole heart. Lee Herrick, former poet laureate of Fresno, California, and author of Scar and Flower

Angel & Hannah is triumphant. Ishle Yi Park s narrative sequence of sonnets is sensuous, tender, and faceted like cut glass. I feel protective of Angel and Hannah. I want their love to flourish like an empress tree growing in an abandoned lot in Queens. These fresh and absolutely necessary poems of a cross-racial romance need to be trumpeted from the rooftops, overtaking the canonized Romeos and Juliets and Heathcliffs and Catherines. I love this book. Cathy Park Hong, award-winning author of Minor Feelings