Bøger af Joseph Moncure March

“DEN VILDE FEST? DET ER DEN BOG, DER FIK MIG TIL AT VILLE VÆRE FORFATTER.” - WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSDen første udgave af dette erotiske digterværk blev forbudt og censureret, da det udkom i USA i 1928. Fordømt som usædeligt blev værket i de brølende 20'ere læst i det skjulte som en hyldest til jazzens rytmer og til livet. Siden da er DEN VILDE FEST blevet et kultværk, ikke mindst på grund af Art Spiegelmans på en gang nedtonede og elektrificerende tegninger, som giver nyt liv til Joseph Moncure Marchs glemte mesterværk. Oversat på vers af Peter Laugesen.

"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."

Written in 1928, The Set-Up is a long narrative poem about the US boxing underworld - a hard-boiled tragedy told in syncopated rhyming couplets. When the work was first published it made the bestseller list, and in 1949 it was turned into an award-winning film featuring Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter.This reprinting of the original, unchanged 1928 poem features dynamic, specially commissioned artwork by Erik Kriek that vividly conveys the story of Pansy, an up-and-coming black prize fighter who takes on all comers. When he was in the ring, "It was over before you knew it. He'd carve you up like a leg of mutton. And drop you flat with a sock on the button.? Pansy's complicated love life leads to a spell in prison and his career subsequently takes a nosedive; but he continues to box until the fateful night his fight managers and opponent triple-cross him and he meets a grisly end at the hands of a vengeful gang.