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."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 04/02/2019
ISBN: 9780143132691
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.50d

Review Citations: Booklist 03/01/2019 pg. 16
Library Journal 04/01/2019 pg. 92
Publishers Weekly 04/22/2019 pg. 46