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."

Product details

• Authors: Willie Perdomo
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780143132691
• ISBN: 978-0-14-313269-1
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 213 mm x 9 mm
• Series: Penguin Poets; Penguin Poets
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama