Joseph Moncure March
Joseph Moncure March (1899-1977) wrote his daring, electrically charged poem "The Wild Party" in 1926, and saw it published two years later in a limited edition that became something of a success de s... Read more
Joseph Moncure March (1899-1977) wrote his daring, electrically charged poem "The Wild Party" in 1926, and saw it published two years later in a limited edition that became something of a success de scandal that was banned in Boston. The noted writer and editor Louis Untermeyer called "The Wild Party" "repulsive and fascinating, vicious, vivacious, uncompromising, unashamed and unremittingly powerful." Famously, William S. Burroughs named it the book that "made me want to be a writer."