[New-Poetry] Archy on Poetica

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POETICA
7/6/2008 15:00
12/6/2008 15:00
Archy and Mehitabel - Part 1, produced by Justine Sloane-Lees 
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/poetica/stories/2008/2246030.htm

Don Marquis's famous collection of poems featuring Archy the cockroach-poet and 
Mehitabel the alley-cat queen. 

Archy is a vers libre poet. He feels all the pain and absurdity of the modern 
world, and tries to express what he feels in words. The only problem is that 
Archy is a cockroach who believes in the transmigration of souls and who, to 
type out his verse, must throw himself headlong onto each typewriter key in a 
darkened office, late at night in 1920s New York. For company, he has his best 
friend Mehitabel the cat, who claims she is the reincarnation of Cleopatra. 
However, her behaviour is often less than regal: indeed, Archy feels it is more 
in keeping with an alley cat on the prowl than a queen. 
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