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Box 617

 Container

Contains 19 Results:

Paracutes, 1966

 Item — Box: 617
Identifier: CC-03495-3552
Scope and Contents

The cover drawing (gouache, watercolor) was made by maRa. The two issues have distinctly different images. Printed by d.a. levy who ran this press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Poems from Mind Jail, 1967

 Item — Box: 617
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

Flowers for Brian Sherman, 1968

 Item — Box: 617
Identifier: CC-48977-70015
Scope and Contents

The content of this book consists of line drawings of flower arrangements. Printed by d.a.levy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

16 Sloppy Haiku & A Lyric For Robert Reardon, 1966

 Item — Box: 617
Identifier: CC-23371-23813
Scope and Contents

The erotic cover drawing was done by Al Diamondstein. This book was printed by d.a. levy. In a personal communication from Jeff Maser, 16 (including the Sackner copy) of the 45 copies have been located. According to an essay in Congress No.1, this book was seized by Cleveland Police for obscenity from Asphodel Book Store in 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Police: You're a Criminal; Levy: I'm Civilizing Planet, 1967

 Item — Box: 617
Identifier: CC-07270-7413
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1967

[Notebook Pages], 1997

 Item — Box: 617
Identifier: CC-28483-29757
Scope and Contents

The letter from Jeffrey Weinberg of Water Row Books offers a notebook by Charles Crumb to Marvin Sackner. The covers and eight pages are reproduced as photocopied colored sheets. These depict obsessive dense, linear calligraphic markings as well as scattered cartoon-like head portraits. Unfortunately, the book was sold prior to the Sackners offer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Campaign '84: Promise Them Anything, 1984

 Item — Box: 617
Identifier: CC-16501-16854
Scope and Contents

Mail art show relating to Reagan - Mondale political campaign. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

JCT 1, 1968

 Item — Box: 617
Identifier: CC-15376-15700
Scope and Contents

In this book, Diacono provides a parody of Stephan Mallarme's "Un Coup de Des." Diacono introduces the poem that he designates "a metrica n'aboolira with cartoons. He then cancells the 1914 layout with blue and orange colored rectangles to bring out its constructivistic presentation. Diacono's book predates the more famous cancelled text treatment by Marcel Broodthaers, a work also held by the Sackner Archive, that was published in 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

The Gun Child, 1968

 Item — Box: 617
Identifier: CC-49109-70149
Scope and Contents

d.a. levy did the cover drawing that depicts abstract markings. This book is stored in a d.a. levy box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Ukanhavyrfuckincitibak (d.a. Levy: A Tribute To The Man - An Anthology Of His Poetry), 2007

 Item — Box: 617
Identifier: CC-49884-70941
Scope and Contents

The back cover design was done by Wally Depew. Book includes all arrest & trial news articles, (5 inlaid Kryss silkscreens of the original book are not included), critques by levy's peers, comments by 40 of his friends and fellows, including Bukowski, Blazek, Richmond, et al. All major works of levy printed to date are included: CLEVELAND UNDERCOVERS, NORTH AMERICAN BOOK OF THE DEAD, RECTAL EYE VISOONS, PRAPS 1 AND KIBBUTZ IN THE SKY. According to rjs' introduction, 25 signed copies with extra pages were to be produced. The Sackners are unaware that this special edition was ever published. However, the Sackner Archive holds stapled pages with the cover title "you can have your fucking city bak." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

La créativité détournée, 1971

 Item — Box: 617
Identifier: CC-41109-43090
Scope and Contents

The edition size of this work is unknown but since there is a great deal of hand drawn additions, each one must be unique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

The Day Is A Prayer They Can't Understand, 1967

 Item — Box: 617
Identifier: CC-00536-549
Scope and Contents

Collage cover of photographic b&w reproductions of female nudes was composed by d.a. levy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

The Day Is A Prayer They Can't Understand, 1967

 Item — Box: 617
Identifier: CC-28494-29769
Scope and Contents

The abstract oil painting on brown paper that is collaged onto cover was done by d.a. levy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967