The Wild Party The Lost Classic by Joseph Moncure March

"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 Art Spiegelman's sinister and witty black-and-white drawings give charged new life to Joseph Moncure March'sWild 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 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. WhenThe Wild Partywas 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."

Joseph Moncure March was a poet, journalist and screenwriter best known for his two verse narratives, <b>The Wild Party</b> and <b>The Set-Up</b>, the story of a washed-up black boxer. An editor for <i>The New Yorker</i> in the 1920s, he died in 1977.<br><br>Art Spiegelman is the author of <b>Maus, A Survivor's Tale</b>, for which he received a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992. He was co-founder and editor of <i>Raw</i>, the acclaimed magazine <br>of avant-garde comics, and is currently a staff artist for <i>The New Yorker</i> and comix editor at <i>Details</i> magazine. He is currently working on <i>Crime Doesn't Pay</i>, an opera libretto about the history of comics. He lives in New York City with his wife, Françoise Mouly, and their two children, Nadja and Dashiell.