The Crazy Bunch

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."

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Willie Perdomo, Perdomo Willie
• Verlag: Penguin Books USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780143132691
• ISBN: 978-0-14-313269-1
• Seiten: 96
• Abmessung: 138 mm x 213 mm x 9 mm
• Serien: Penguin Poets; Penguin Poets
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Poetry, POETRY / American / Hispanic & Latino, Poetry / Poems, Relating to Latin / Hispanic US American people