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Marquis, Don, 1878-1937.

Archyology : the long lost tales of Archy and Mehitabel / Don Marquis ; edited and with a preface by Jeff Adams, with drawings by Ed Frascino.

Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, 1996 (Printed in the United States of America)

103 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

A series of free-verse poems written from the view point of a cockroach presents comments on society, politics, and pretensions.

Archy (Fictitious character) -- Poetry.

Mehitabel (Fictitious character) -- Poetry.

Cockroaches -- Poetry.

Cats -- Poetry.

Insects -- Poetry.

Friendship -- Poetry.

Wit and humor -- Poetry.

Poetry.

Adams, Jeff, 1947- editor, author of introduction.

Frascino, Edward, illustrator.

Burton, Mike, book designer.

University Press of New England, publisher.

"Designed by Mike Burton"--Title page verso.

Also issued online.

And so -- What next -- Mehitabel's motto -- That cockroach glide -- Archy insists -- Wish I were Keats -- Plaint of spring -- All the French -- Paris or bust -- Over the limit -- Archy repels an attack of whales -- Captain's progress -- Mehitabel at sea -- Archy reaches Paris -- What can a lady do -- Aunt Prudence Hecklebury -- Archy figures out Aunt Prudence -- Idle thought -- Diplomacy -- The insects of Europe -- Archy explains the Romanoffs -- The famous fish of the Seine -- All for science -- Archy the Cockroach turns detective -- Archy crawls among the H's -- Georgie the college centipede -- Georgie hears from Archy -- O Volstead dear Volstead -- King Nicky -- Ode -- The tired ghost -- Archy Mehitabel and Emmet the Ghost -- Archygrams -- The gloomy bullfrog -- No literary slave -- Archy gardens -- The crippled cockroach -- Lessons of the fairies -- Archy bewails an absence -- Kindness -- Believe it boss.

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