Angel & Hannah : a novel in verse / by Ishle Yi Park.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : One World, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: 175 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780593134320
- 059313432X
- Angel and Hannah
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Fiction | PARK, ISHLE | Available | 33111009810264 | ||||
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Main Library | Fiction | PARK, ISHLE | Available | 33111010517247 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Thesweeping, unforgettablestory of an interracial couple in 1990s New York City who are determined to protect their love against all odds-areimagining of Romeo and Juliet
"Triumphant . . .sensuous, tender, and faceted like cut glass."-Cathy Park Hong, award-winning author of Minor Feelings
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 at a quinceanera-
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 across the changing seasons, Angel & Hannah holds all of the tension and cadence of blank verse while adding dynamic and expressive language rooted in a long tradition of hip-hop and spoken word, creating new and magnetic forms. The poetry of Angel and Hannah's relationship is dynamic, arresting, observant, and magical, conveying the intimacies and sacrifices of love and family and the devastating realities of struggle and loss.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
1993. Hannah, who comes from a strict Korean home in Queens, meets Angel, Puerto Rican boy from Brooklyn, at a quinceañera. Their forbidden love instantly and wildly blooms along the Jackie Robinson Expressway. They're two New York City kids trying to survive and grow within their families and communities, driven by an all-consuming love, as the seasons pass. -- adapted from front flap