false 262304 4 "Spiegelman's drawings are like demonic woodcuts: every angle, line, and curve jumps out at you. Stylishness and brutishness are in perfect accord."<br>-- <i>The New York Times</i><br><br>Art Spiegelman's sinister and witty black-and-white drawings give charged new life to Joseph Moncure March's <b>Wild Party</b>, 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.<br><br>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 <b>The Wild Party</b> 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." 254255 1994 The Wild Party: The Lost Classic by Joseph Moncure March total:230|5:95|4:96|3:33|2:6|1:0| 230 970 311 34 4 1 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 08:49:22 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 02 18:02:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 true false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 08:00:59 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 08:07:13 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 28 12:21:14 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 28 12:35:00 -0700 2008 In my reasearch I learned that it was based loosely on a poem written ov...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 15 07:29:11 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 18 22:33:46 -0700 2007
The Wild Party, a poem in the classical epic style, is Joseph Moncure March's first published work. Upon its 1928 publication the poem was widely banned, first in Boston, for having content viewed as wild as the titular party...When asked once about March's The Wild Party,...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Aug 05 15:10:08 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 15:10:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Oct 07 11:38:36 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 11:43:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 13:05:33 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 07:46:50 -0700 2009
Not usually a fan of poetry- this knocked me off of my feet. Loved the story. Loved the illustrations. Loved the velvet pages. Loved how it made me feel. Loved that I instantly wanted to memorize the whole thing so I could have it with me at all times.

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