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