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Periodical edited by Mike Gunderloy reviews small press publications including "zines" and books, e.g., American Living, Artpolice Sum 1988, Asylum Vol.4 #2, Fiction Review Vol.2 #2, Inkblot #9, Noospapers #6, Photostatic/ Retrofuturism #32, Score Review #6-7, Snarl Vol.1 #1, Stroker #40, The Subtle Journal of Raw Coinage #11-13, Umbrella Vol.11 #1, Cake, Red Lines #8 & 9, Taproot #9-10, Interstate #19, Acts #7, Catalyst #17, Metal Farm #1, Lost & Found Times #23. Also, has extensive book review section. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book includes three abstract letterpress prints. In this book, levy repetitively prints an obscene word in varied typefaces and layouts, one to a page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Heilbrun fled Cleveland rather than face drug charges. The real charges against him were that he was running a peace and flowers bookstore in Cleveland at a time when the authorities of that hay seed city were determined to destroy the emergent counter culture. Grady M. Jones contributed a great cover drawing and Kryss a fine screen print to the interior. This memorial volume prints a fine poem by d.a. levy, works by Heilbrun, r.j.s., kryss, Geoffrey A. Cook -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover was designed by Tom Kyyss. r.j.s. stands for Robert J. Sigmond, a poet who at age 19 years was incarcerated by the Cleveland authorities for six months because of using marijuana. d.a.levy's poem in this book, "Indictment of the City of Cleveland for Contributing to the Delinquency of Minors" describes that episode. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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According to Kent Taylor in a personal communication (1997) to the Sackners, this was d.a levy's first book. Further, he believes that "Dave" in the inscription was Dave Williams, a boy friend of Taylor's first wife, levy's cousin, Joan. Several copies were destroyed from the run and Jim Lowell estimated that only 10-15 copies remained intact. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover design by Ralph and Diedra Poplar is identical in the two copies but one is printed in black and the other in red ink. The copy whose cover is printed in black is missing the final page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This article describes the background and calligraphic work of George Fitzpatrick, a Cleveland artist. Pekar mentions that he managed the Continental Theater in Cleveland at the time that d.a. levy sold his publications in its lobby. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents From the dust jacket cover: "An informal history of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side."Amazon.com: Fug You traces the flowering years of New York's downtown bohemia in the sixties, starting with the marketing problems presented by publishing Fuck You / A Magazine of the Arts, as it faced the aboveground's scrutiny, and leading to Sanders's arrest after a raid on his Peace Eye Bookstore. The memoir also traces the career of the Fugs--formed in 1964 by Sanders and his neighbor, the legendary Tuli Kupferberg (called "the world's oldest living hippie" by Allen Ginsberg)--as Sanders strives to find a home for this famous postmodern, innovative anarcho-folk-rock band in the world of record labelsPrague Post: "This inspiring, enlightening book is a compendium of 1960s American culture enlivened by hilarious stories, unbelievable adventures and, surprisingly, more than a tab of humility"¦It is rare that a memoir of the 1960s...

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This piece provides instructions for building a machine as a memorial to da levy. Such a machine could be programmed as an animation but economical, high powered, computers were still on the horizon at that time. The Sackner Archive holds a large Archive of da levy's work who committed suicide in 1968. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This piece provides instructions for building a machine as a memorial to da levy. Such a machine could be programmed as an animation but economical, high powered, computers were still on the horizon at that time. The Sackner Archive holds a large Archive of da levy's work who committed suicide in 1968. This is the same typing as Funeral Games 1 but without the instructions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a static piece of poetry base upon Funeral Games 1 and 2 and is stored with them in the typing binder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work is not listed in the Taylor and Horvath bobliography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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d.a. levy contributed a one page poem dealing with moving from his place of living to another one. Includes an obituary by Ted Berrigan on Frank O'Hara's death at age 40 years from an automobile accident. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book lists the winners in an American Haiku contest along with their poems. da levy was eighth runner-up with this poem, "Hundreds of sparrows - Perching on telephone wires, - A cloud approaches." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.