| The Crazy Bunch Contributor(s): Perdomo, Willie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0143132695 ISBN-13: 9780143132691 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Hispanic American - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Places |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2018047501 |
| Series: Penguin Poets |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.40 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Ethnic Orientation - Latino |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |