The Best of Archy and Mehitabel

by Don Marquis (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2011

  $11.87

  A poet in a former life, Archy has been reincarnated as a cockroach who types by diving headfirst onto a typewriter (and is famously unable to operate the shift key to produce capital letters); his side-kick Mehitabel is an alley cat who claims to have once been Cleopatra. Archy's poems irresistibly evoke 'Jazz Age New York' - as seen from the alley; funny, wise, tender and tough, they represent the very best of American humour. Including George Herriman's whimsical illustrations and a classic introduction by novelist E.B. White, this pocket poet selection will make a beautiful volume, perfectly sized for its tiny hero.