![]() ![]() Punching the Air is a New York Times best seller and Junior Library Guild book. Poetry can capture a feeling and when it's being read or spoken, it's magnetic." Reception It is a way that we codify the more powerful and salient ideas. Zoboi and Salaam decided to write the novel in verse to mirror Amal's connection to poetry, as well as to incorporate the concept of hip-hop, which Salaam refers to as "a genre that was created by us for us. Although Punching the Air is not based on Salaam's experience of racial profiling, “Amal’s character is inspired by him as an artist and as an incarcerated teen who had the support of his family, read lots of books, and made art to keep his mind free.” Zoboi and Salaam met at Hunter College in 1999, two years before Salaam was exonerated for allegedly assaulting and raping a woman in Manhattan's Central Park. It has also won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature and the Walter Dean Myers Award. ![]() The book is a New York Times best seller and Junior Library Guild book. Yusef Salaam, published Septemby Balzer + Bray. Punching the Air is a young adult novel-in-verse by Ibi Zoboi and Dr. ![]() 2020 novel by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam Punching the Air ![]()
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