If you enjoy comic verse, do yourself a favor and get this book. Callisto 4. So many good ones, but a couple of my favorite poems: Don Marquis was a newspaper man from the early 20th Century who came up with this series of free verse poems about a cockaroach who's the reincarnation of a verse libre poet. We’d love your help. It was followed by archys life of mehitabel (1933) and archy does his part (1935). Donald Robert Perry "Don" Marquis was a newspaper columnist as well as a playwright, novelist, and poet, best known for his "Archy and Mehitabel" free verse and his "Old Soak" anti-Prohibition play. The back cover copy claims this is a book of poetry and that it is art. No_Favorite. Though the stories are uneven, some are wonderful fun. I have met other English Majors by making obscure references to this book. $17.61. Mehitabel claims to be a reincarnation of Cleopatra, but now her wild adventures result only in litters of kittens. archy and mehitabel were a cockroach and a cat archy had the soul of a vers libre poet and laboriously composed by jumping on the keys of don marquis s typewriter at night while mehitabel supposedly had the soul of cleopatra. Share via email. Asanaginica (The Hereafter Mix) 6. my favs were "why mehitabel jumped", "mehitabel dances with boreas", "the dissipated hornet", "off with the old love", and of course, "cheerio my deario" :). A friend at work suggested this as one of her favorite books in the world. About Archy and Mehitabel. rueful at first, and then remembering you. Archy's most frequently covered topic is the life and times of Mehitabel, the alley cat, who has a variety of entanglements with charming tom cats who try to use and manipulate her, but who always insists on maintaining an optimistic outlook no matter what. Written as free verse through the eyes of Archy the cockroach and Mehitabel the cat, with many other creatures included. I didn't hate it, but I wasn't particularly amused or charmed, either. i got acquainted with a parrot named pete recently who is an interesting bird pete says he used to belong to the fellow that ran the mermaid tavern in london then i said you must have known shakespeare know him said pete poor mutt i knew him well he called me pete and i called him bill but why do you say poor mutt well said pete bill was a disappointed man and was always boring his friends about what he might have been and done if he o… Marquis' delightful dialogue between the humorous and learned. an Egyptian mummy, Archy alliteratively refers to the. Written as free verse through the eyes of Archy the cockroach and Mehitabel the cat, with many other creatures included. In poems of varying length, Archy pithily describes his wee world, the main fixture of which is Mehitabel, a devil-may-care alley cat. Charming without ever being twee, and just so damn beautiful. Asanaginica (Best Served Cold Mix) 7. Her motto is Toujours Gai! Archy, a cockroach who had been a free-verse poet in a previous life, tries to reform his friend Mehitabel, an alley cat who believes in free love. Share to Twitter. It's also a big reminder of how much more we used to expect from our newspaper readers. he manages to continue his writings by butting his head onto each key of the typewriter that is at his disposal. very clever and amusing. mehitabel is his feline friend. Share to Tumblr. Generations of readers have delighted in the work of the great American humorist Don Marquis. 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