The Crazy Bunch
Paperback 128 pages English April 02, 2019
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From a prize-winning poet, a new collection that chronicles a weekend in the life of a group of friends coming of age in East Harlem at the dawn of the hip-hop era Willie Perdomo, a native of East Harlem, has won praise as a hip, playful, historically engaged poet whose restlessly lyrical language mixes "city life with a sense of the transcendent" (NPR.org). In his fourth collection, The Crazy Bunch, Perdomo returns to his beloved neighborhood to create a vivid, kaleidoscopic portrait of a "crew" coming of age in East Harlem at the beginning of the 1990s. In poems written in couplets, vignettes, sketches, riffs, and dialogue, Perdomo recreates a weekend where surviving members of the crew recall a series of tragic events: "That was the summer we all tried to fly. All but one of us succeeded."
- Author:
- Willie Perdomo
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books
- Publication Date:
- April 02, 2019
- Number of pages:
- 128 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0143132695
- ISBN-13:
- 9780143132691