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Apr 3, 2024 · Today’s Poem: The Wild Party. Joseph Moncure March (1899–1977) had his day and faded. Not that he shone all that brightly when he published The Wild Party in 1926. But the book-length poem was one of those racy productions that never quite died away after its first burst of scandalous success.
The Wild Party is a book-length narrative poem, written by Joseph Moncure March, who also wrote The Set-Up. Published in 1926 [1] by Pascal Covici, Inc. , the poem was widely banned, first in Boston , [2] for having content viewed as lewd.
Joseph Moncure March (July 27, 1899 – February 14, 1977) was an American poet, screenwriter, and essayist, best known for his long narrative poems The Wild Party and The Set-Up.
Jun 19, 1994 · ART AND VERSE with excerpts from Joseph Moncure March's poem "The Wild Party" with illustrations by Art Spiegelman.
Apr 4, 2024 · “Joseph Moncure March’s Wild Party is a hard-boiled, jazz-age tragedy told in syncopated rhyming couplets. It has a mnemonic tenacity, if not the wholesomeness, of a nursery rhyme, and to read it once is to get large shards of it permanently lodged in the brain.”
An epic poem by Joseph Moncure March, written in and about The Roaring '20s. In the story, two vaudeville performers, Queenie (a dancer) and Burrs (a clown) begin a lustful romance and move into a Manhattan apartment together.
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