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levy, d.a., 1942-1968

 Person

Parallel Names

  • Levy, D. A.
  • Levy, DA

Nationality

American

Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:

3 One Act Plays, 1964

 Item — Box 544: [Barcode: 31858072461050]
Identifier: CC-20653-21055
Scope and Contents

This is d.a. levy's first published play and is called the "In Group." The book is stored with in a da levy box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Cleveland Nov 24, 1968 [1 page], 1968

 Item — Box 610: [Barcode: 31858072460862]
Identifier: CC-03015-3060
Scope and Contents

This sheet announces the suicide death of d.a.levy. It also provides information about the status of levy's publications. Stored in da levy box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Cleveland: Nov 24, 1968 [2 pages], 1968

 Item — Box 610: [Barcode: 31858072460862]
Identifier: CC-28170-29333
Scope and Contents

Announcement of d.a. levy's suicide and his friends' plans for further publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

flp business letter #4562, 1967

 Item — Box 610: [Barcode: 31858072460862]
Identifier: CC-31907-33431
Scope and Contents

This is an announcement of the release of rjs from jail and the delayed publication of d.a. levy tribute and anthology. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Kibbutz In The Sky, Book I, 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60427-56221
Scope and Contents

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 exchange with Bill Wyatt, re: eating meat: [jesus & buddha sed something...], 1966

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60898-10003758
Scope and Contents

Wyatt wrote the Haiku regarding eating animal meat anf levy responded as follows. "It isn't what goes in yr mouth thats imortant, it is what comes out of yr mouth." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Letter exchange with Jacob Leed, re: Leed's poems: [i feel somewhat swift & merciless...], 1965

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-07342-7486
Scope and Contents

Leed writes that he is sending poems to levy from those he sent for an issue of Wormwood. levy writes that he is returning most of them and keeping a few for an anthology that he wants to edit rather than seeing them publishing them in Wormwood. He also mentions starting 7 Flowers Press and the Ohio City Series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Letter exchange with Jacob Leed, re: poem request: [you will have to order them thru Jim...], 1966

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-07341-7485
Scope and Contents

Leed requests copies of his book, Poems, but levy replies that he must order them from Jim Lowell. levy also mentions that he is going to New York for a poetry reading. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Letter exchange with Will Inman, re: kauri: [would like to send you this poem...], 1966

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-07641-7786
Scope and Contents

levy describes a poet friend (RD) who is the only white man living and trying to make a difference in a black Cleveland neighborhood. He also doesn't want Inman to list his address in kauri (Inman's magazine) because he wants to be left alone to work. Inman writes back that he respects RD's intentions but rejects the poem because of its quality. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Letter exchange with Will Inman, re: self-loathing and drugs: [of course im egocentric...], 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60902-10003761
Scope and Contents

This letter is about levy's self-pitying, depressive state of mind regarding the events surrounding him such as the Vietnam war and the assult on drugs. levy also castigates Inman for his anti-drug stand. According to the envelope, this letter was mailed March 8, 1967. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Letter from Kay Wood to Bill Wyatt, re: d.a. levy's indictment: [Merci, beaucoup - some may be of use...], 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-48441-69469
Scope and Contents

This letter deals with levy's upcomng hearing on an obscenity charge. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Letter from Will Inman, re: thoughts and responses: [Thanks for your letter...], 1965

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60716-10003571
Scope and Contents

This letter is stored in levy binder.Thanks levy for sending him artwork which he has framed and hanged. Asks the question, 'What is dexamyl?" Inman comments on Irving Fiske, "a pompous tub of shit." [Wikipedia: Irving Fiske (March 5, 1908 "“ April 25, 1990) born Irving Fishman in Brooklyn, New York, was a playwright, inventor, freelance writer, and speaker. He is associated with Quarry Hill Creative Center, the Fiske family property, in Rochester, Vermont]. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Letter to Bill Wyatt, re: American food: [now eating sunday dinners...], 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60901-56230
Scope and Contents

levy laments about food coloring in the United States particularly with regard to cooking hamburgers and closes with the following. We need a poet Kibbutz - KAPOTS KAPOTE KA KA KABOOM. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

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 Bill Wyatt, re: MQ (vol. 2, no. 4): [we just started on the next MQ (vol 2 #4)] and Light On, The Old Test, 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60915-56224
Scope and Contents

The mailing envelope (dated May 12, 1967) to BILL WYATT + chris Torrance has a label on its left upper corner that reads "SMUT DOES NOT MELT IN YOUR HANDS." The recto of the letter to BIll Wyatt closes with "the best Way to fry yr enemies is to pray for their enlightenment." The verso of this letter deals with comments on the Assyrian Kings. levy ends his diatribe as follows. "SHAZAM" - this is turning into one of ed sander's' mongolian cluster fucks! forget the light / im turning on with the "Old ASS"/yrs KHU-ED-OHO GUARDIAN of the royal cisttern/d.a. levy bh -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Letter to Bill Wyatt, re: ordering his books: [will you please see...], 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-61024-56273
Scope and Contents

This is a single sentence, signed letter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Letter to Bill Wyatt, re: Renegade 7Flowers: [am sending you a collection of the latest renegade 7flowers press publications...] / [I have given sacrifices...], 1966

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60783-56226
Scope and Contents

The book that levy announces was not published under the title given to it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Letter to David Harris (dwh), re: arson and trial: [u dont understand...], 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60631-55611
Scope and Contents

This letter deals with arson of a coffe shop in Cleveland and artworks destroyed. levy ruminates abput hIs upcoming pornography trial. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Letter to David Harris (dwh), re: boredom and apathy: [BLEW BOOK yours to burn|eat|distri-butte...], 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60701-55599
Original Sackner Archive Location

The opening sentence of this card reads "BLEW BOOK yours to BURN | EAT | DISTR-BUTTE| anything you want to do with it... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967