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levy, d.a., 1942-1968

 Person

Parallel Names

  • Levy, D. A.
  • Levy, DA

Nationality

American

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

16 Sloppy Haiku & A Lyric For Robert Reardon, 1966

 Item — Box 617: [Barcode: 31858072461027]
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

A Preliminary Draft of the d.a. levy Collection, 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-26924-27397
Scope and Contents

This check list of works by d.a. levy and his circle was collected by David Wirshup, owner of Anacapa Books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Admissible Evidence (Random Sightings), 2003

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-48496-69525
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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

Black Horse Telepathy is a Little Fish, 2008

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-48742-69776
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by Alan Horvath. This poem was reprinted from Card 5 of "Stories From The Flats." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Head Second, 1965

 Item — Box 543: [Barcode: 31858072461068]
Identifier: CC-51257-72345
Scope and Contents

d.a. levy contributed six abstract drawings and Judson Crews wrote the poems in this publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Kibbutz In The Sky, Book I, 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60427-56221
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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.

Dates: 1967

Letter to Bill Wyatt including two poems THE LION & tHE mARK, re: religion and book distribution: [10 copies of yr book on the way too you...], 1965

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60896-10003756
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In this letter, levy discusses the discrimination against 'negroes' and the wrongful assasinations of Kennedy and Malcom X. He states that he took drugs for the first time including peyote, pot, acid, belladonna and hash and "I am quite tired." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Letter to Bill Wyatt, re: Cleveland poems: [from 465 an anthology of cleveland poets], 1966

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-49020-70058
Scope and Contents This is a piece that was sent to Bill Wyatt by d.a. levy. Bennett Hassink died in 2008 and his obituary was printed in the Berkeley Daily Planet. Bennett James Hassink, known to his many friends as "Bud," died in Berkeley on Monday Feb. 25, 2008, at the age of 81, from congestive heart failure. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio in March 1926, where he was married to Mildred Pugh. Bud and Millie could be considered one of the early "bohemian" couples during the early 1960s. Millie, a talented artisan and jeweler, bore him his first daughter March. Their home on Wadena Street in East Cleveland was always full of interesting people, listening to electronically combined sounds and bits of recorded music that Bud mixed on reel-to-reel tapes, with lots of conversations, philosophical discussions and chess games. The music Bud made was far ahead of the synthesizer music and sounds of the'70s, and it had an ethereal yet melodic quality. He was routinely involved in the Cleveland music...
Dates: 1966

Letter to Bill Wyatt, re: depression: [dont be depressed...], 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-33539-35189
Scope and Contents

The poem within this letter deals with Dagmar and levy's ambivalence toward her as his muse. It is undated but most of the correspondence to bill wyatt took place in March of 1967. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Letter to Will Inman, re: poem submission: [immediate reply necessary], 1964

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-07645-7790
Scope and Contents

levy requests poems from Inman for Silver Cesspool #5 and Inman sends them to levy. Inman also mentions that Carol Berge is delighted with levy's publication of her book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Lumina, 1965

 Item — Box 339: [Barcode: 31858072491248]
Identifier: CC-23944-24392
Scope and Contents

Printed by d.a.levy. 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: 1965

Notes: Variations on a Short Poem, 1970

 Item — Box 543: [Barcode: 31858072461068]
Identifier: CC-07337-7481
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The poem was written by levy in 1966 but published in 1970 for the friends of the press by D.r. Wagner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Permit Me Voyage, 1964

 Item — Box 543: [Barcode: 31858072461068]
Identifier: CC-02426-2466
Scope and Contents

d.a levy (1963) did the cover design as well as 13 abstract, semi-realistic figurative and bimorphic, brown watercolor, picture poems to illustrate this book. The book stored in d.a. levy box (1963). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Poetry Survival Fund, 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-32637-34222
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1967

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

 Item — Box 617: [Barcode: 31858072461027]
Identifier: CC-07270-7413
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1967

Purgatorio, 1964

 Item — Box 543: [Barcode: 31858072461068]
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