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The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon

Poems

By: Willie Perdomo

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The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon

Poems

By: Willie Perdomo

A suite of poems about a percussionist in 1970 Spanish Harlem music circles, from the author of The Crazy Bunch A National Book Critics Circle 2014 Finalist for Poetry Through dream song and elegy, alternate takes and tempos, prizewinning poet Willie Perdomo’s third collection crackles with vitality and dynamism as it imagines the life of a percussionist, rebuilding the landscape of his apprenticeship, love, diaspora, and death. At the beginning of his infernal journey, Shorty Bon Bon recalls his live studio recording with a classic 1970s descarga band, sharing his recollection with an unidentified poet. This opening section is followed by a call-and-response with his greatest love, a singer named Rose, and a visit to Puerto Rico that inhabits a surreal nationalistic dreamscape, before a final jam session where Shorty recognizes his end and a trio of voices seek to converge on his elegy.

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0143125230

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9780143125235

The Crazy Bunch

By: Willie Perdomo

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The Crazy Bunch

By: Willie Perdomo

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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Penguin

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ISBN 10

0525504621

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9780525504627

Clemente!

By: Willie Perdomo

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Clemente!

By: Willie Perdomo

The award-winning team of Perdomo and Collier ("Visiting Langston") joins forces once again for this tribute to baseball's beloved Roberto Clemente. Full color.

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Macmillan

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0805082247

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9780805082241

Visiting Langston

By: Willie Perdomo

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By: Willie Perdomo

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Macmillan

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0805078819

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9780805078817

Smoking Lovely

The Remix

By: Willie Perdomo

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Smoking Lovely

The Remix

By: Willie Perdomo

Smoking Lovely's explorations of poetry and the neoliberal city at the intersection of community and commodity. In this radically revised new edition, Perdomo shifts the poem into mostly second person, thereby further accentuating its self-reflexive and complex exploration of self-and/as-other, and of the simultaneous othering, commodification, and spectacularization of Afro-diasporic bodies and cultural forms.

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Haymarket Books

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1642594849

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9781642594843

The Crazy Bunch

By: Willie Perdomo

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Clemente!

By: Willie Perdomo

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The award-winning team of Perdomo and Collier ("Visiting Langston") joins forces once again for this tribute to baseball's beloved Roberto Clemente. Full color.

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The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon

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By: Willie Perdomo

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Visiting Langston

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The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon

The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon

The Crazy Bunch

The Crazy Bunch

Clemente!

Clemente!

Visiting Langston

Visiting Langston

Smoking Lovely

Smoking Lovely

The Crazy Bunch

The Crazy Bunch

Clemente!

Clemente!

The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon

The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon

Visiting Langston

Visiting Langston

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