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levy, d.a., 1942-1968

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1942 October 29 - 1968 November 24

Parallel Names

  • Levy, D. A.
  • Levy, DA

Nationality

American

Found in 424 Collections and/or Records:

Poem For Julie / levy, d.a. ; Roach M., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-60488-56234
Scope and Contents The cover photograph was taken by Max Roach. At the time of this poem, Julie was Julie Weisberg, a 15 year old Clevelnd Heights acquaintance of d.a. levy.The following is an excerpt from Cleveland Magazine.com in November 2007 about JUlie Weisberg: "Authorities never said exactly which literature prompted levy and Lowell's indictments. But police arrested levy again in late March, confiscated his mimeograph and charged him with five counts of tending to contribute to the delinquency of minors. The charges could have sent levy to prison for up to five years. He was indicted for publishing the 17-year-old Friedman's "Black Revolt" in his anthology "465"; giving a copy of the book to Julie Weisberg, a 15-year-old Cleveland Heights girl; and reading the poem to a Gate audience that included the two teens. "465" was made up of youthful literary experiments of mixed quality "” a delicate poem about two lovers, an overwritten but vivid scene at Adele's Bar, Vietnam War protests, a...
Dates: 1967

Poems from Mind Jail / Dominique ; levy da ; Kryss TL., 1967

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Identifier: CC-16327-16677
Scope and Contents

Printed by d.a.levy. Also designated Persecuted Poet Series #3. Tom Kryss made the silkscreen cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Poems / Leed, Jacob ; levy da., 1966

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Identifier: CC-07266-7409
Scope and Contents

The cover and three prints were made by d.a.levy who also printed this booklet. Stored in levy box 7 flowers press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Poems Made of Skin, 1968

 Item — Box 339: [Barcode: 31858072491248]
Identifier: CC-41895-43890
Scope and Contents

The abstract design for the cover entitled "Portrait of Carol Berge" was done by da levy. Nelson Ball designed this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Poems of W.E. Wyatt / Wyatt, Bill ; dagmaR ; levy da ; Wagner Dr ; Torrance C., 1966

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Identifier: CC-48588-69619
Scope and Contents

This book was published by d.a. levy who printed a letter from Wyatt to himself. The cover and each of the left sided facing pages depicts a "doodle" drawing by DagmaR. In this book the name Dagmara instead of DagmaR was used. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

[police brutality in Cleveland] / Anonymous: about d.a. levy; rjs; Lowell J; levy da; Ginsberg A; Fugs; Heilbrun S., 1967

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Identifier: CC-60916-10003772
Scope and Contents This polemic deals with the reprecussions of the arrests of d.a. levy and James Lowell on obscenity charges. According to Brandon Thomas DiSabatino on internet: As the regional headlines mark the 50th anniversary of the Hough Riots, I recall a line in a poem by d.a. levy, observing the madness that erupted from July 18th to July 23rd on the east side of Cleveland: they are looting stores trying to get televisions so they can watch the riots/on the 11 pm news It is an image my mind has conjured during riots and subsequent lootings over the past few years "” in Ferguson, in Baltimore "” where the strange, seemingly unmovable biases and struggles of class warfare appear inseparable from the American landscape. levy was born and raised in Cleveland, and he incorporated the Hough Riots in his poetry as he incorporated every aspect of Cleveland during the mid-to-late 60s. His self-described artistic mission was to give the city its own singular breed of poetry, regardless of whether...
Dates: 1967

Police: You're a Criminal; Levy: I'm Civilizing Planet / levy, d.a.., 1967

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Identifier: CC-07270-7413
Scope and Contents

Designated as xtra pages from da levy anthology. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Polluted Lake Series: Aster F. No.6 / d.a. levy., 1965

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Identifier: CC-04305-4385
Scope and Contents

Edited by d.a.levy. The poem deals with speed (the drug or the automobile) that can lead to disaster. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Practicing Up to be Human / Kearns, Lionel ; levy da., 1978

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Identifier: CC-50348-71416
Scope and Contents

Kearns composes a poem dedicated to da levy written correctly in the text but misspelled in the title as d.a. levi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Purgatorio / levy, d.a.., 1964

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Identifier: CC-07664-7809
Scope and Contents

This poem, along with Reality Jew, was sent to Ted Berrigan, editor of the magazine "C," for possible publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Purgatory and Carousels (2nd Printing) / Billera, Jau ; levy da., 1963

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Identifier: CC-24044-24494
Scope and Contents

This is the second printing by d.a. levy's press; the first printing had the imprint, The Free Lance Poets & Prose Workshop. The Renegade Press edition includes an abstract print and the cover that was made by levy. Billera had a Cleveland radio program on WCLV and editied "Podium" in the mid-1960's. Billera committed suicide in 1981 in his sealed automobile with the motor running from carbon monoxide poisoning. It is stored in a box labeled levy and Renegade Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963