{"product_id":"the-crazy-bunch-paperback","title":"The Crazy Bunch - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWillie Perdomo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom 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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWillie 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.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWillie Perdomo\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eSmoking Lovely: The Remix\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Crazy Bunch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWhere a Nickel Costs a Dime\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eLatínext\u003c\/i\u003e, and his work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, African Voices, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBest American\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePoetry 2019\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches at Phillips Exeter Academy and was recently appointed State Poet of New York, 2021-2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 02, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753780511008,"sku":"9780143132691","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0bf12ccdfc2b99a3f35423b524509487.webp?v=1780027362","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-crazy-bunch-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}