{"product_id":"the-crazy-bunch","title":"The Crazy Bunch (Penguin Poets)","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\"","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50950949798176,"sku":"9780143132691","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780143132691.jpg?v=1763631457","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/the-crazy-bunch","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}