The Crazy Bunch
by Willie Perdomo
Publication Date: Apr 02, 2019
List Price: $18.00
Format: Paperback, 128 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9780143132691
Imprint: PublicAffairs
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Parent Company: Lagardère Group
Description of The Crazy Bunch by Willie Perdomo
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."”
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