100 Love Notes - Softcover

Yi, Hyong

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0996188401 ISBN 13: 9780996188401

Publisher: Lorimer Press, 2017

Synopsis

The initial version of Hyong Yi's 100 Love Notes launched on the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina on November 21, 2015. To honor his wife, Catherine Zanga, on the one-year anniversary of her death from ovarian cancer, Hyong and his two young children gave strangers 100 handwritten love notes, notes that chronicled Hyong and Catherine’s life together, from their first meeting, to dating, marriage, children, and her death, which came far too soon. 

NBC and ABC Nightly News, Good Morning America, and the The Today Show covered the story. So did Buzzfeed, Upworthy, Someecards, Collective Evolution, Yahoo News, Blessings.com, and many other online news sources. Media around the world―the Toronto Star, Sky News (U.K.), Yahoo Canada, Huffington Post UK, Global News Canada, KSN.com, News India, Korean Evening News, UTBC (South Korea), Suff.co.nz, Dailylife (Australia)―picked up the story as well.

Surprised by the magnitude of interest, Yi realized that the notes had greater purpose, and he commissioned 17 artists to illustrate his three-line poems. The resulting art runs the gamut from watercolor, to pen and ink, mosaic, and collage; from traditional paintings to digital compositions

About this title

From the Author:

Yi has spent his career working as a public servant, currently for the City of Charlotte. He earned degrees in political science and public administration, qualifying him to work in government. He loves his community, his family, his children, and most importantly, his late wife, Catherine.

Originally from Chicago, Caswell holds a BFA and MFA in design, and an MFA in creative writing and publication arts. She studied writing at Iowa Writers’ Workshop and illustration at Maryland Institute College of Art. Passionate about combining words and images, she was the lead writer and book designer for LUCK, A Collection of Facts, Fiction, Incantations & Verse. Her collages were featured in Far From the Centers of Ambition, and she is the author of Motherload, stories. (averycaswell.com)

From the Back Cover:

Advance praise for 100 Love Notes

Hyong Yi admonishes us to “Life Fiercely. Love Completely” at the close of his moving collection, 100 Love Notes, a conversation between Dearest and Beloved, dedicated to his wife, Catherine Ann Zanga. These notes of inspiration, joy, tenacity, courage, hope and love between Catherine and Hyong move me beyond tears. That they are accompanied by the intensely vivid and evocative work by a diverse bouquet of visual artists, makes this collection a unique and powerful tribute to a woman who spent most of her adult life in public service to those in Charlotte, North Carolina. I am proud to endorse this heart-expanding book. Each page will make you fall in love again and again.

―Pam Uschuk, author of Blood Flower and Crazy Love, American Book Award

 Because of these deeply affecting love notes, because of these strikingly gorgeous illustrations, we readers are able to listen to two “hearts beating together.” There is lovely humor in these pages, tender details and emotional truths. From this couple’s first date (and the whole Spanish anchovy she ate) to the anniversary of her death, we travel along with them, knowing, although the ending is not what we would wish, we all will ultimately be healed.

― Judy Goldman, author of Losing My Sister

100 Love Notes by Hyong Yi and his contributors create a flow of poetry, image, and planning, celebrating the yin and yang of Life. As Lillian Too says in Chinese Wisdom, “There can be no light (yang) without dark (yin); no day without night; no hills without valleys; no dynamism without stillness; no plus without minus; no male without female.”

―Laura Grosch, artist married to fellow artist Herb Jackson

(Hyong Yi)

About this edition

• Publisher: Lorimer Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0996188401
• ISBN 13: 9780996188401
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• Illustrator: Andress Emily, Brown Caroline, Goode Pam, Huebner Marianne, Grauel Jonathan, Pike Diane, Napoletano Nick, Walls Jen, Ardila Luis