http://blogs.slj.com/printzblog/2012/12/07/my-book-of-life-by-angel/ by Karyn Silverman and Sarah Couri Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:03:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://blogs.slj.com/printzblog/2012/12/07/my-book-of-life-by-angel/#comment-13961 This Week in Mormon Literature, February 9, 2013 | Dawning of a Brighter Day Sat, 09 Feb 2013 14:15:21 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/printzblog/?p=1817#comment-13961 [...] School Library Blog post. “Leavitt’s latest is nothing like Keturah and Lord Death, with its mythopoeic elements and historical/fantastical setting. My Book of Life by Angel is a gritty free verse tale of a teen prostitute looking for a way out. It’s Ellen Hopkins with a dash of Paradise Lost; So what do you get when you mix literary concepts with street grit?  Free verse is a complex thing. It can be what I once heard David Levithan describe as “prose with line breaks,” it can be an utter disaster, and it can be poetry. Here, it’s poetry. Occasionally, it’s transcendent: [...] [...] School Library Blog post. “Leavitt’s latest is nothing like Keturah and Lord Death, with its mythopoeic elements and historical/fantastical setting. My Book of Life by Angel is a gritty free verse tale of a teen prostitute looking for a way out. It’s Ellen Hopkins with a dash of Paradise Lost; So what do you get when you mix literary concepts with street grit?  Free verse is a complex thing. It can be what I once heard David Levithan describe as “prose with line breaks,” it can be an utter disaster, and it can be poetry. Here, it’s poetry. Occasionally, it’s transcendent: [...]

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