The Best of Archy and Mehitabel: Introduction by E. B. White

ISBN-13:	9780307700926
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/25/2011
Series:	Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	712,340
Product dimensions:	4.40(w) x 6.30(h) x 0.70(d)

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.