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Box 618

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Contains 97 Results:

Rejection Letter to Dante Thomas, 1968

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-60415-10003359
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1968

Kibbutz In The Sky, Book II, 1967

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-60428-56591
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1967

Letter to H.K. and John S., re: poetry: Funny thing..., 1967

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-60432-55623
Scope and Contents

Cannot identify H.K. but J.S. i is probably John Scott.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

The JAMES R LOWELL DEFENSE FUND (1), 1967

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-60433-10003365
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1967

Letter to David Harris (dwh), re: sending stamps: [wrote you a lettre asking if you had or could save any stamps...], 1966

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-60629-55613
Scope and Contents

levy discusses stamp collecting and asks for article about concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Letter to David Harris (dwh): [urgent], 1966

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-60630-55614
Scope and Contents

The letter reads urgenT/ poems stolen need copies of BERET...BY may 5th.. when us fleye due.....? -- 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
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
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

The Beginning of Sunny Dawn [signed], 1968

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-07209-7351
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by Sandy Webb. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

The Beginning of Sunny Dawn, 1968

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-07269-7412
Scope and Contents

Cover was designed by Sandy Webb. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

The Brotherhood Of Bhang, 1966

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-45381-47571
Scope and Contents

levy wrote that this work was to be published in the next issue of MQ (Marrahwanna Quarterly). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Black Horse Telepathy is a Little Fish, 2008

 Item — Box: 618
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

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

 Item — Box: 618
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

Why I Got Busted & Other Nonsense, Part 1, 1967

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-49028-70066
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1967

Letter to David Harris (dwh), re: sending material: [just herd that r.j.s. got 6 months!!!], 1967

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-60702-55602
Scope and Contents

levy mentions WORK-HOUSE sentence and also asks harris for cement ["concrete poetry" MAS interpretation] from him and other poets if "you will cut stencils -for -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967