Box 618
Contains 49 Results:
UCLA Daily Bruin, March 23, 1966: Grotesque Poetry, 1966
The Plain Dealer, January 11, 1967: 89-Cents-a-Day Poet Raps Filth Charge / Poet Denies Obscenity Charge, 1967
[Unknown source, undated]: $11,000 Pledged to Help Defend Book Seller in Obscenity Case, undated
Miss America Is a Virgin, 1968
Collage art from magazines and newspapers mostly of thin women but also Medusa (in a circle but also top left corner where Perseus has cut off her head), Hitler (in a stamp), and two comics lower left and lower right. The words "Miss America is a Virgin" have been handwritten on newspaper and pasted on top. This collage has complex meanings in reference to its title. It was made near the date that levy committed suicide. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Plain Dealer, 1967: "Not Obscene, Baby"---Poet Surrenders / Poet Levy to Surrender Today, 1967
Hate Rays: You too can help destroy a nation, 1967
The mainfesto deals with profanity. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Kibbutz In The Sky, Book I, 1967
In the letter to billl wyatt on the cover, levy muses about a third part of the poem (only two parts were published) in which he plans "i think will be a defense of the county sherriffs (sic) office - they were pretty good to me considering all the lip i gave them - was on radio & T.V." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The JAMES R LOWELL DEFENSE FUND (2), 1967
The recto of this work sets forth the context of the trial and the verso reproduces a poem by Joe Brainard relating to peace and tranquility. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Beginning of Sunny Dawn [signed], 1968
The cover was designed by Sandy Webb. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Beginning of Sunny Dawn, 1968
Cover was designed by Sandy Webb. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
You Can Have Your Fucking City Bak, 1967
The Brotherhood Of Bhang, 1966
levy wrote that this work was to be published in the next issue of MQ (Marrahwanna Quarterly). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Why I Got Busted & Other Nonsense, Part 1, 1967
This is a polemic against the Cleveland establishment. In this piece, levy mentions that he decided to commit suicide at age 17 years but changed his mind at the last minute and began reading everything and writing poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Rejection Letter to Dante Thomas, 1968
This is a 1/2 page, eight line, handwritten letter signed by levy of a poem submitted by Dante Thomas for a d.a. levy publication.It was priced by Captain Ahab's Rare Books at $1,250. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
This Is Concrete Atrocity Paper, 1966
a mandala to free the spirit, 1967
Kibbutz In The Sky, Book II, 1967
This prose poem deals with levy resigned to turning himself in to serve his sentence for the obscenity charge. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The JAMES R LOWELL DEFENSE FUND (1), 1967
This work lists books seized by Cleveland police from Asphodel Book shop. almost all the books and several of the magazines are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The James R. Lowell Defense Fund would include levy as well, which some refer to as the Lowell-levy (or levy-Lowell) Defense Fund. These funds aided Lowell and levy in their respective court battles.