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 heaA 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.

• Title: The Best of Archy and Mehitabel
• Author: Don Marquis
• ISBN: 9780307700926
• Page: 108
• Format: Hardcover