The Wild Party Author:Joseph Moncure March, Art Spiegelman Art Spiegelman's sinister and witty black-and-white drawings give charged new life to Joseph Moncure March's 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. — Here is a poem that can make even read... more »ers 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."« less