best known for his long narrative poems The Wild Party and The Set-Up. The DVD also contains a concert reading performed by Bruce Forman and Larry Reed, and an archival tape of the first performance. Joseph Moncure March Pennys poetry pages Wiki Fandom.
The Wild Party DVD features a behind-the-scene look at this innovative shadow theatre work and is edited from several performances, and mixed with interviews with the performers and musicians as well as exciting rehearsal and backstage footage. It was performed in San Francisco, The Eugene O‚Neill Theater Center, and Kent State University in 19. The performance fuses film ideas with modern shadow techniques derived from the ancient art form. Queenie was a blond and her age stood still,Ī rediscovered lost classic, the recently republished version by Art Spiegelman inspired ShadowLight to create a shadow setting for the poem with a live jazz score composed and performed by jazz great Bruce Forman. It is a witty risqué poem about two vaudeville performers who fight, make up, throw a party, and flirt with danger: The Wild Party was written in 1926 by New Yorker editor Joseph Moncure March, and immediately banned in Boston. comes with public performance rights for the life of the media for non-commercial and educational exhibition when no admission fee is charged.įor private usage.
It rhymes.” Whether you think it’s good poetry or bad, it’s riotously good fun.Institutional copy purchased for non-profits, public schools, university libraries/departments, corporations, etc. Burroughs replied “Of course it’s poetry. Spiegelman said he didn’t know if it was a good poem, a bad poem, or poetry at all. 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. Spiegelman also wrote an introduction to the book in which he recounts a discussion he had about the poem with William Burroughs, also a fan. Dancers cast huge shadows against candle lit walls. Burr’s clown face grimaces on a vaudeville poster. The edition I have is illustrated by Art Spiegelman. The candles flared” the shadows sprang tall, The character’s are straight out of a gangster’s speakeasy: Queenie “was a blond, and her age stood still” and her lover Burrs was “A clown, Of renown: Three-sheeted all over town.” The plot is predicted by the title of the book, Queenie decides to throw a party and as the alcohol flows things get out of hand. Written in 1928, it is a fun jazz-age piece. This book length poem almost has to be read out loud to get the full effect.
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