Fifteen short poems by Joseph Moncure March, the American poet and essayist, best known for his Jazz Age narrative poems The Wild Party and The Set-Up. Joseph Moncure March was the first managing editor of The New Yorker, and helped create the magazine's Talk of the Town front section. Moving to Hollywood in 1929 he became the script writer who turned the silent version of Howard Hughes' classic Hell's Angels into a talkie.

Joseph Moncure March (1899-1977) was the first managing editor of The New Yorker, and helped create the magazine's Talk of the Town front section. After leaving the magazine, March wrote the first of his two important Jazz Age narrative poems, The Wild Party. In 1928 he followed it up with The Set-up. Moving to Hollywood in 1929 he became the script writer who turned the silent version of Howard Hughes' classic Hell's Angels into a talkie.