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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. [1] [2] Life [ edit ]
Apr 3, 2024 · Joseph Moncure March March was managing editor of the New Yorker for a while in the 1920s and a Hollywood screenwriter of middling success, caught up in Howard Hughes’s descent on Tinseltown. If he’s much-remembered, it’s only for The Wild Party and, to a lesser degree, The Set-Up , his 1928 book-length poem about an aging black boxer used as a set-up, deliberately losing bouts to rising ...
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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. The poem was a success notwithstanding, and perhaps in part due to, the controversy surrounding the work.
- Joseph Moncure March
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Jun 19, 1994 · ART AND VERSE with excerpts from Joseph Moncure March's poem "The Wild Party" with illustrations by Art Spiegelman. March's "The Wild Party"--the first part of which follows--is a hardboiled Jazz ...
The Set-Up is a book-length narrative poem, written by Joseph Moncure March. It was first published in the winter of 1928 [1] 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. [2]
Born. in New York, The United States. July 27, 1899. Died. February 14, 1977. Genre. Poetry. edit data. After serving in World War I and graduating from Amherst College (where he was a protégé of Robert Frost), March worked as managing editor for The New Yorker in 1925, and helped create the magazine's "Talk of the Town" front section.
Joseph Moncure March's "The Wild Party," first published in 1928, is something of a revelation. Reading this book-length poem is like discovering the well -- or perhaps cesspool is the better word -- from which sprung everything from pre-Hayes Code Hollywood films to the writings of Bukowski and Burroughs.
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