Don Marquis, E. B. White
The Best of Archy and Mehitabel
Hardcover
(Everyman's Library Oct. 25, 2011)
A selection of the best of the hilarious free-verse poems by the irreverent cockroach poet Archy and his alley-cat pal Mehitabel.Don Marquis’s famous fictional insect appeared in his newspaper columns from 1916 into the 1930s, and he has delighted generations of readers ever since. A poet in a former life, Archy was reincarnated as a bug who expresses himself by diving headfirst onto a typewriter. His sidekick Mehitabel is a streetwise feline who claims to have been Cleopatra in a previous life. As E. B. White wrote in his now-classic introduction, the Archy poems “contain cosmic reverberations along with high comedy” and have “the jewel-like perfection of poetry.”Adorned with George Herriman’s whimsical illustrations and including White’s introduction, our Pocket Poets selection—the only hardcover Archy and Mehitabel in print—is a beautiful volume, and perfectly sized for its tiny hero.
- Series
- Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series
- ISBN
- 0307700925 / 9780307700926
- Pages
- 224
- Weight
- 7.0 oz.
- Dimensions
- 4.3 x 0.6 in.
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