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Levy, D. A.

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1942-10-29 - 1968-11-24

Found in 418 Collections and/or Records:

No.216: Literature / Asphodel Book Shop ; Lowell J ; levy da ; rjs ; Cook G ; Taylor K ; Kryss TL ; Blazek D ; Bukowski C ; Corita M ; Creeley R ; Griffiths B ; Snyder G ; Sukenick R., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-40207-42177
Scope and Contents

The catalogue listed several paintings on paper by levy but before the Sackners could purchase them, they had been sold. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Nola Express. No.81 / levy da., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-30830-32276
Scope and Contents

Contains d.a. levy's poem, "the bells of Cherokee ponies." Also, the cover was designed by d.a.levy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Non-Sectarian Crucifixion / levy, d.a.., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-28462-29731
Scope and Contents

Image is an oil paint semi-realistic sketch of an individual held on a crucifix. The major colors are browns on a white primed background. Geoffrey Cook who owned the painting wrote to the Sackners that "although d.a. was most secular, he was deeply aware of his Jewishness: 'I am a levy of the levites,' and did not wish to have these paintings seen totally in a Christian historical context. I believe, though, levy was drawn to the suffering represented in our own culture by the icon of the cruxifixion because of the suffering he actually felt in his own life. I don't think that the markings below to the right have a significance, I believe they can be explained by the action painting technique." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

North American Book of the Dead Part 1 & 2 / levy, d.a.., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-07248-7391
Scope and Contents

The theme of this poem (with many typographic errors) deals with Zen and a hallucinatory trip to an afterlife place whose description was inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

(Not So) Random Sightings [1965 - 1966] / levy, d.a. ; Bukowski C ; Berge C ; Sanders E ; Denis A., 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-47225-49968
Scope and Contents

This book includes reprints of "The North American Book of the Dead," Polluted Lake Series 11," Marrahwannah Newsletter #1 and Cleveland undercovers. The cover was designed by alan horvath. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

[note to bill wyatt on page from 465 an anthology of cleveland poets that consists of poems by Joel Friedman and Bennet ]Hassink: note by d.a.levy / levy, d.a.., 1966

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Identifier: CC-49020-70058
Scope and Contents This is a piece that was sent to Bill Wyatt by d.a. levy. Bennett Hassink died in 2008 and his obituary was printed in the Berkeley Daily Planet. Bennett James Hassink, known to his many friends as "Bud," died in Berkeley on Monday Feb. 25, 2008, at the age of 81, from congestive heart failure. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio in March 1926, where he was married to Mildred Pugh. Bud and Millie could be considered one of the early "bohemian" couples during the early 1960s. Millie, a talented artisan and jeweler, bore him his first daughter March. Their home on Wadena Street in East Cleveland was always full of interesting people, listening to electronically combined sounds and bits of recorded music that Bud mixed on reel-to-reel tapes, with lots of conversations, philosophical discussions and chess games. The music Bud made was far ahead of the synthesizer music and sounds of the'70s, and it had an ethereal yet melodic quality. He was routinely involved in the Cleveland music...
Dates: 1966

[note to Inman stapled to envelope] / levy, d.a.., 1964

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Identifier: CC-60714-10003569
Scope and Contents

The note reads "will. i changed my mind tore up letter nothing is urgent -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Notes On The Suicide Of America [as modified from writings of] Hasan Sabbah II / levy, d.a.., 1966

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Identifier: CC-45380-47570
Scope and Contents

Wikipedia: Hassan-i Sabbāh (Persian: حسن صباح"Ž; 1050s"“1124) was a NizārÄ« Ismā"Ä«lÄ« missionary who converted a community in the late 11th century in the heart of the Alborz Mountains of northern Persia. He later seized a mountain fortress called Alamut and used it as the headquarters for a decentralized Persian insurrection against the dominant Seljuk Turks. He founded a group of fedayeen whose members are often referred to as the Hashshashin, or "Assassins". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966