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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Wild Party: The Lost Classic by Joseph Moncure March

The Wild Party: The Lost Classic by Joseph Moncure March

March, Joseph Moncure
Spiegelman, Art

Paperback

Series: Pantheon Graphic Library

HumorGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $24.00

ISBN10: 0375706437
ISBN13: 9780375706431
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: Mar 23 1999
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.48
Language: English
Art 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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