The Crazy Bunch by Perdomo, Willie

The Crazy Bunch (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143132691)

Vendor: Willie Perdomo
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Format: Paperback
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The Crazy Bunch by Perdomo, Willie

The Crazy Bunch

$18.00
The Crazy Bunch by Perdomo, Willie

The Crazy Bunch

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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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
ISBN-10: 0143132695
ISBN-13: 9780143132691
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 04/02/2019
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/01/2019 pg. 16
Library Journal 04/01/2019 pg. 92
Publishers Weekly 04/22/2019 pg. 46
By Willie Perdomo
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Willie Perdomo is the author of Smoking Lovely: The Remix, The Crazy Bunch, The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon, and Where a Nickel Costs a Dime. Winner of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, the New York City Book Award, and a PEN Open Book Award, Perdomo was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award. He is co-editor of the anthology Lat?ext, and his work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, African Voices, and Best American Poetry 2019. He teaches at Phillips Exeter Academy and was recently appointed State Poet of New York, 2021-2023.

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