The Best of Archy and Mehitabel: Introduction by E. B. White (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

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. Presents a collection of free-verse poems by the cockroach poet Archy and his alley-cat friend Mehitabel, which appeared in Don Marquis's newspaper columns, from 1916 into the 1930s