The Wild Party: The Lost Classic by Joseph Moncure MarchArt Spiegelman's sinister and witty black-and-white drawings give charged new life to Joseph Moncure March's The Wild Party, a lost classic from 1928. The inventive and varied page designs offer perfect counterpoint to the staccato tempo of this hard-boiled jazz-age tragedy told in syncopated rhyming couplets. "Spiegelman's drawings are like demonic woodcuts: every angle, line, and curve jumps out at you. Stylishness and brutishness are in perfect accord." —The New York Times Here is a poem that can make even readers with no time for poetry stop dead in their tracks. Once read, large shards of this story of one night of debauchery will become permanently lodged in the brain. When The Wild Party was first published, Louis Untermeyer declared: "It is repulsive and fascinating, vicious and vivacious, uncompromising, unashamed . . . and unremittingly powerful. It is an amazing tour de force." |
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The Wild Party: The Lost Classic by Joseph Moncure March Art Spiegelman,Joseph Moncure March Limited preview - 1999 |
The Wild Party: The Lost Classic by Joseph Moncure March Art Spiegelman,Joseph Moncure March No preview available - 1999 |
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