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Original Title:	Archy and Mehitabel
ISBN:	0385094787 (ISBN13: 9780385094788)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	United States of America

Archy and Mehitabel

Don Marquis

Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

Rating: 4.27 | 1414 Users | 155 Reviews

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Title	:	Archy and Mehitabel
Author	:	Don Marquis
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	September 29th 1987 by Anchor (first published 1927)
Categories	:	Poetry. Fiction. Humor. Classics. Comedy

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When newspapers were the dominant medium, were fun, and didn't take themselves so goddam seriously, there were great columnists.

Don Marquis was one. archy was his alter ego, a cockroach with the soul of a poet who threw himself on the typewriter keys to express his thoughts. Hence no caps--you can't throw yourself on the caps key and a letter key at the same time. mehitabel was his unruly alley cat sidekick.

Great fun, and occasionally wise ("The human race may be doing the best it can, boss, but that's an explanation, not an excuse.")

There's also a musical version with David Wayne and Carol Channing. Very good, too.

Rating Of Books Archy and Mehitabel

Ratings: 4.27 From 1414 Users | 155 Reviews

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i don't know, this just might be my all time favorite book. how can you resist the chronicles of a cock-roach who types fervently and a house-cat who thinks she is cleopatra re-incarnated???

This book by newspaper reporter Don Marquis collects poems written in the voice of a cockroach named Archy for the Evening Sun in New York beginning in 1916. Archy is said to be a former free verse poet whose soul has "transmigrated" into the body of a cockroach. Because Archy is an insect, he cannot make use of the shift key on the typewriter he uses to compose his poems, so they are all written without capitalization. Archy writes on many topics, and the poems often poke fun at human nature

hello everyonein case you haven t heard of memy name is archyi was a vers libre poetwho died and came back as a cockroachi used to pound out my poems on an old typewriterand someone called don marquis took them to the publishernow there are no more typewritersand don marquis is deadi heard he reincarnated as a fruit batThe rest of this review is available elsewhere (the location cannot be given for Goodreads policy reasons)

An Amazon reviewer said "Writers (particularly journalists) can go lifetimes without attaining such loose-limbed grace," and I think that's a really well-chosen description of his style: loose-limbed grace. Perfect tone for his characters, but fresh, slangy, casual and formal in the same breath, and with an unusual combination of humor and melancholy floating around and within other like an expertly balanced chili-passionfruit margarita.Archy is a cockroach who used to be a vers libre poet in a

Oh yes! so true, so bad. and amazingly poetic.

this is part of my list of all time favorites. I nver leave home without a copy. A vers libre poet transmigrates into the body of a cockaroach and becomes the eyes and voice of the "people" through the perspective of a maligned insect. he manages to continue his writings by butting his head onto each key of the typewriter that is at his disposal. it is painstaking work and due to the difficulties in shifting and the mechanics of captalization, his work is sans uppercase and punctuation. Along

I think I read this in High School. It was clever and fun. I have met other English Majors by making obscure references to this book. Apparently ONLY people who go on to be English Majors remember this work.