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'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 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."

The Wild Party es una tragedia en los días del apogeo del jazz. "La fiesta salvaje es el libro que me convirtió en escritor."William S. Burroughs La fiesta salvaje, un poema erótico de Joseph Moncure March, es un clasico perdido de 1928. Cuando se publico en Estados Unidos fue inmediatamente censurado en muchos estados, convirtiendose asi en una obra de culto para las siguientes generaciones. Louis Untermeyer afirmo: "Es una historia fascinante, viciosa, desvergonzada y estelar... y, sobre todo, muy poderosa. Es un autentico tour de force". Art Spiegelman ha ilustrado magistralmente esta historia de amor de los años veinte, cuando se bailaba freneticamente al ritmo del jazz y del champan.