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| 8/30/1930 |
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Cleopatra, Shakespeare, Mehitabel
On this day in 30 BC Cleopatra committed suicide. Death by self-inflicted asp was no whim: Cleopatra's search for a painless exit caused more than one unfortunate to be experimentally force-fed this or that drug or snake. The dress-rehearsing done, came the final act: "Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have / Immortal longings in me. . . ." |
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| 12/29/1937 |
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Archy, Mehitabel, Wotthehell
On this day in 1937 Don Marquis died. Although also a playwright and a novelist, Marquis is most famous for the "Archy and Mehitabel" poetry he wrote for his newspaper column -- Archy being the soul of a "vers libre bard" in the body of a cockroach, Mehitabel being an alley cat on her ninth life and "bound / for a journey down the sound / in the midst of a refuse mound / but wotthehell wotthehell." |
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Archy and Mehitabel
fiction |
Archyology II (The Final Dig) : The Long Lost Tales of Archy and Mehitabel
by Don Marquis, Jeff Adams (Editor)
anthology |
Archyology: The Long Lost Tales of Archy and Mehitabel
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Lunch Time Musicals: Archy & Mehitabel and Sadie Thomspon - The Musical
by Don Marquis, Vernon Duke
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Sun Dial Time
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The Archy and Mehitabel Omnibus
anthology |
When the Turtles Sing and Other Unusual Tales
anthology |
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DonMarquis.com
Find a biography, a humorous 1916 autobiographical account of his life, a profile of the writer by E. B. White, and Christopher Morley's obituary tribute to Marquis from the January 1938 isue of the Saturday Review. Also offers information about the Archy and Mehitabel series, and selected excerpts and quotations.
"At bottom Don Marquis was a poet, and his life followed the precarious pattern of a poet's existence. He danced on bitter nights with Boreas, he ground out copy on drowsy afternoons when he felt no urge to write and in newspaper offices where he didn't want to be. After he had exhausted himself columning, he tried playwriting and made a pot of money (on The Old Soak) and then lost it all on another play (about the Crucifixion). He tried Hollywood and was utterly miserable and angry, and came away with a violent, unprintable poem in his pocket describing the place. In his domestic life he suffered one tragedy after another--the death of a young son, the death of his first wife, the death of his daughter, finally the death of his second wife. Then sickness and poverty...."
-- E. B. White |  | DonMarquis.org
A comprehensive site featuring biographical material, excerpts, visuals and an exhaustive set of links. | | Online Books Page
Find the electronic texts of The Cruise of the Jasper B., Danny's Own Story, Dreams & Dust, and Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers. | |
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