The Crazy Bunch
The Crazy Bunch by Willie Perdomo is a poetry collection published by Penguin on April 2, 2019. This edition features 128 pages and is presented in English. The book chronicles a weekend in the life of a group of friends coming of age in East Harlem during the early 1990s, capturing the essence of the hip-hop era through vivid and lyrical language.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of experiences as Perdomo employs various poetic forms, including couplets, vignettes, and dialogue, to depict the lives of his characters. The collection reflects on themes of friendship and resilience, as the surviving members of the crew navigate a series of tragic events, creating a poignant narrative that resonates with the cultural backdrop of the time. Through this work, Perdomo offers an engaging exploration of urban life and the complexities of growing up in a vibrant community.
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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.”
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