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1 online resource. |
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Penguin poets
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Penguin poets.
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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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Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Poetry.
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FICTION / General |
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New York (State) -- New York -- Harlem. |
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Poetry
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poetry.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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Poems. Selections
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Print version: Perdomo, Willie, author. Crazy bunch [New York] : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019] 9780143132691 (DLC) 2018047501 |
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0525504621 |
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9780525504627 (electronic bk.) |
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9780143132691 |
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