Helpful Score: 3
I first heard about these poems when a woman in the theatre department at MSU (Go green!) did a monologue as Mehitabel. I was intrigued and vowed to get the book. I did.
Some may get turned off by the style of the writing, and, to be honest, it does take a few reads to understand it, since there is no capitalization or punctuation. [The concept of the book is that Archy is a cockroach poet who writes the poems by bouncing on the typewriter keys, so he can't do the "shift" key.] After a poem or two, you get used to it and you get sucked into Archy's philosophies and Mehitabel's grandiose ideas; for example, she claims to be a reincarnation of Cleopatra...
Wonderful poems and almost life-changing creeds. Uplifting and thought-provoking.
Some may get turned off by the style of the writing, and, to be honest, it does take a few reads to understand it, since there is no capitalization or punctuation. [The concept of the book is that Archy is a cockroach poet who writes the poems by bouncing on the typewriter keys, so he can't do the "shift" key.] After a poem or two, you get used to it and you get sucked into Archy's philosophies and Mehitabel's grandiose ideas; for example, she claims to be a reincarnation of Cleopatra...
Wonderful poems and almost life-changing creeds. Uplifting and thought-provoking.
