The Best of Archy and Mehitabel

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.

• Author
• Don Marquis

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 224

• Publisher
• Everyman's Library

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-307-70092-6

• EAN
• 9780307700926

• Genres
• poetry

• Release date
• 2011