[New-Poetry] Archy on Poetica

[Skip Fox]

This series in the paper is what is said to have influence e.e. cummings's
use of a lower case "i" as a personal pronoun.  Archy could not step on a
letter and the shift key at the same time. (He had certain limitations as a
writer :-)) But one can also see a lovely similarity between Archy's
childlike but serious view of existence, mocking of pretensions, and love of
simple humanity as  cummings's.

 

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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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