I am excited to announce the release of my debut novel!
"A tender and honest story of young love striving to survive the streets."
- Kirkus Review
“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 erotic, 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 and and one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People
“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
I am excited to announce the upcoming release of my debut novel!
" A tender and honest story of young love striving to survive the streets."
- Kirkus Review
Celebrating Diversity: Artist Salon with the Wallace Foundation for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
A conversation with Taiyo Na, a Queens-based writer, educator, and musician.
LIVE, In-person event
You're Invited to the Hawai'i Book Launch
for Angel & Hannah!
Come celebrate da birth of this new love story into the world ~ come celebrate with aloha!
Look forward to seeing you!
CHECK HOST FOR REPLAYS
Books are Magic
Book launch, in conversation with Willie Perdomo author of Smoking Lovely: The Remix.
Founded by a Black and Queer Bookseller, this Maryland shop centers BIPOC and Queer voices. Donations in any amount toward the event goes to Black Lives Matter DC.
Celebrating Diversity: Artist Salon with the Wallace Foundation for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
A conversation with Taiyo Na, a Queens-based writer, educator, and musician.
LIVE, In-person event
You're Invited to the Hawai'i Book Launch
for Angel & Hannah!
Come celebrate da birth of this new love story into the world ~ come celebrate with aloha!
Look forward to seeing you!
CHECK HOST FOR REPLAYS
Books are Magic
Book launch, in conversation with Willie Perdomo author of Smoking Lovely: The Remix.
Founded by a Black and Queer Bookseller, this Maryland shop centers BIPOC and Queer voices. Donations in any amount toward the event goes to Black Lives Matter DC.
A conversation with Taiyo Na, a Queens-based writer, educator, and musician.
LIVE, In-person event
You're Invited to the Hawai'i Book Launch
for Angel & Hannah!
Come celebrate da birth of this new love story into the world ~ come celebrate with aloha!
Look forward to seeing you!
CHECK HOST FOR REPLAYS
Founded by a Black and Queer Bookseller, this Maryland shop centers BIPOC and Queer voices. Donations in any amount toward the event goes to Black Lives Matter DC.
Book launch, in conversation with Willie Perdomo author of Smoking Lovely: The Remix.
Celebrating Diversity: Artist Salon with the Wallace Foundation for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
her fears, her insecurities, the lacunae,
but learns to Still, with him —to relax
into the moment. Breathe. He doesn’t say
much, mostly one-word answers. Never one for small talk,
She lets her guard down, her petals unfurl;
lets her smile bring a spark of sunlit joy to his harsh world.
She feels safe & calmed by his quiet, lithe grace
as a candle cupped in two warm palms. She softly glows ~
Te quiero . . . te amo ~
mi cielo.
stare at the sun slipping into the sea
from the docks at South Street Seaport.
She loves his quiet, how deep & still he is;
his chiseled cheekbones show the sharpness
of his unspoken hungers, his eyes, deep pools
of the quiet sorrows he carries.
grass blade by her ear, tickling her, chewing its ends,
picking her up & carrying her piggyback down salty blocks.
Arriving May 11, available from the
publisher , or wherever books are sold.
stare at the sun slipping into the sea
from the docks at South Street Seaport.
She loves his quiet, how deep & still he is;
his chiseled cheekbones show the sharpness
of his unspoken hungers, his eyes, deep pools
of the quiet sorrows he carries.
her fears, her insecurities, the lacunae,
but learns to Still, with him —to relax
into the moment. Breathe. He doesn’t say
much, mostly one-word answers. Never one for small talk,
grass blade by her ear, tickling her, chewing its ends,
picking her up & carrying her piggyback down salty blocks.
She lets her guard down, her petals unfurl;
lets her smile bring a spark of sunlit joy to his harsh world.
She feels safe & calmed by his quiet, lithe grace
as a candle cupped in two warm palms. She softly glows ~
Te quiero . . . te amo ~
mi cielo.
Available now,
from the publisher, or wherever books are sold.