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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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...

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levy asks Bill Wyatt to write a letter to the Cleveland Plain Dealer indicating that levy is a poet not a smut peddler. Jonathan Dworkin mentioned in the letter was levy's defense attorney.The verso of the letter is a photocopied exhibition announcement for a Cleveland artist, Phillip Pekarcik. The verso of the envelope is collaged with the label, "GREETINGS FROM SWAMP ERIE." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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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.

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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.

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

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