Don Marquis

Gebundenes Buch

The Best of Archy and Mehitabel

Beschreibung

A poet in a former life, Archy has been reincarnated as a cockroach who types by diving headfirst onto a typewriter (and is famously unable to operate the shift key to produce capital letters); Archy's poems irresistibly evoke Jazz Age New York - as seen from the alley;

Autor

Don Marquis (1878-1937) worked as a journalist in New York from 1909. In 1912 he launched his legendary column 'The Sun Dial' in the New York Evening Sun and four years later the Archy and Mehitabel poems began to appear, eventually collected into three volumes.

Produktdetails

• Everyman's Library POCKET POETS
• Verlag: Everyman
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 96mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 208g
• ISBN-13: 9781841597911
• ISBN-10: 1841597910
• Artikelnr.: 33386563