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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.
- Joseph Bottum
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.
The Set-Up is a book-length narrative poem, written by Joseph Moncure March. It was first published in the winter of 1928 by Pascal Covici, Inc., after the success of March's first poem The Wild Party (1926) which became a succès de scandale after it was banned in Boston for lewdness.
Jun 19, 1994 · ART AND VERSE with excerpts from Joseph Moncure March's poem "The Wild Party" with illustrations by Art Spiegelman.
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
- 1994
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.”
The Wild Party. Full-Length Musical, Drama / 7w, 8m. Music and Lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa. Book by Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe. Based on the poem by Joseph Moncure March. 1920s Manhattan sets the backdrop for this musical fable about debauchery, decadence and sexual freedom.
