{"product_id":"the-crazy-bunch-9780143132691","title":"The Crazy Bunch","description":"\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 \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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51985538089234,"sku":"9780143132691","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ecc3498b-65a4-489c-a32f-06c450fd2091.jpg?v=1769539462","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-crazy-bunch-9780143132691","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}