[New-Poetry] Archy on Poetica

[TheOldMole]

Limitations as a writer? The little scatter footed scarab? Bite your tongue.

Skip Fox wrote:
>
> 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 J) 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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