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Box 618

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Contains 49 Results:

For Levy's Defense, 1967

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-07268-7411
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts silkscreened portrait of levy and includes a handwritten inscription, "25 [cents] for levy's defense." The tipped-in silkscreen print on the page was probably made by levy. The text admonishes the people of Cleveland for the treatment of levy. According to a letter from Alan Horvath, this is the first version of the book that was subsequently published with a different cover/title page. Further, he indicated that pages were missing from the Sackner copy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

The Puking Pidgeon #1 or The Fucking Duck #1 or The Search for the Holy Houkah, 1966

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-07623-7768
Scope and Contents

The painted drawing on the cover was done by levy. Bill Wyatt, is a British poet who carried on a correspondence with levy. Several letters from this interaction are held by the Sackner Archive. Printed by d.a. levy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Poetry Survival Fund, 1967

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-32637-34222
Scope and Contents

The cover was hand colored by Mara. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

three poems by cleveland poets, 1967

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-33516-35165
Scope and Contents

The painted cover by Mara has a resemblance to a Morris Louis color field painting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Black (cover), 1966

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-49039-10002909
Scope and Contents

Khu-En-Oho is another name for d.a. levy -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.


The booklet is formed from three poems: "Black Hat : At the End of the Bar,"3 American Tanka"/"3 Tanks," and "Egyptian Stroboscope." Though they do not appear in the table of contents, four other shorter poems are mingled throughout: "Iron Cross of the Sun," "SCrape the SKY-rapeR,"Flying Muslim," and "Judgement I."

Dates: 1966

Poem For Julie, 1967

 Item — Box: 618
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

Admissible Evidence (Random Sightings), 2003

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-48496-69525
Scope and Contents

In addition to the poetry of levy and Taylor, this book depicts reproductions of photographs of the poets and their circle. The poems in this book and the CD were made from a tape of readings by levy & Taylor (January 1967) provided by B.L.Kennedy and created in a limited edition by Ingrid Swanberg at Ghost Pony Press in 2000. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

(Invisible) Random Sightings, 1999

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-48657-69689
Scope and Contents

This issue contains a photograph that is reprinted and reproduced in (Uh..One & Uh..Two) Random Sightings. The cover photograph is by Alan Horvath. Reprints numerous collages from Serif (volume 8, number 4, 1972, Marijuana Newsletter #2 (1965), The Day is a Prayer they Can't Understand (1967), Cleveland Undercovers (1966), All Gods Must Learn to Kill (1967). Also reprints Farewell the Floating Cunt (1964) in its entirety. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Random Sightings (d.a. has left the building), 1999

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-48658-69690
Scope and Contents

The cover photograph is by Alan Horvath. Includes several poems and polemics against the Vietnam war as handwritten manuscripts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

What Are You Doing?, 2008

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-48755-69789
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts a detail of a painting entitled "Non-Sectarian Crucifixion," a work held by the Sackner Archive. This work is also designated as Card 13 from "Stories from the Flats." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

What Are You Doing? [sealed], 2008

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-48757-69791
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts a detail of a painting entitled "Non-Sectarian Crucifixion," a work held by the Sackner Archive. This numbered work is also designated as Card 13 from "Stories from the Flats." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008