Joseph Moncure March

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 New York Times 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...