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Sigmund, Robert J.

 Person

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

A Year in the Life of the Cleveland Plain Dealer / sigmund, r.j., aka rjs., 2004

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Identifier: CC-28548-29830
Scope and Contents

This book depicts 31 reproductions of collages, each cut from one week of the 1975 Cleveland Plain Dealer and glued to 12" x 18" cardboard; 49 were completed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

[Card to Will Inman] / sigmund, r.j. (aka rjs)., 1969

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Identifier: CC-03017-3062
Scope and Contents

Advises Inman about publishing activities. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

CHRISTMAS / levy, d.a.; sigmund, r.j. (aka rjs); Kryss, Tom L.; mara., 1967

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Identifier: CC-32638-34223
Scope and Contents

The cover is a silkscreen print in green ink that depicts a rabbit within a landscape. There are slight differeces in the signatures between the two copies; hence the signatures are not facsimiles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Cleveland: Nov 24, 1968 / r.j. sigmund, aka rjs ; Tom L. Kryss, 1968

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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

Cleveland Nov 24, 1968 / r.j. sigmund, aka rjs ; Tom L. Kryss ; da levy, 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

Energy Crisis Poems / sigmund, r.j., aka rjs ; Kryss TL ; Dominique., 1974

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Identifier: CC-02986-3031
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by Tom L. Kryss. The three photocopied drawings within the book were done by Dominique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

[Exchange of Letters] / sigmund, r.j. (aka rjs); Inman, Will., 1967

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Identifier: CC-03011-3056
Scope and Contents

rjs discusses putting together a d.a. levy anthology, his jail term, lost job, and an inquiry about George Montgomery. Inman notes that he thought rjs was another name for levy, commisurates about rjs jail term and sends George Montgomery's address. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[Exchange of Letters] / sigmund, r.j. (aka rjs); Inman, Will., 1968

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Identifier: CC-03013-3058
Scope and Contents

rjs sends Inman order sheet for U CAN HAV YR FUCKIN CITI BAK. He also adds a note indicating publishing responsibilities, viz., d.a.levy = kho-an-oho, seven flowers, renegade, grass coin? and rjs = captain zero, evolution incorporated, ground zero press, free love press. Inman expreses concern with levy's problems with the police and his admiration for levy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

flp business letter #4562 / Tom L. Kryss ; da levy ; rjs, 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

[Indictment of Jim Lowell and d.a.levy] / levy, d.a.; Lowell J; levy da; Heilbrun S; Sigmund RJ., 1967

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Identifier: CC-07129-7269
Scope and Contents

Relates story of the arrest of d.a.levy, Jim Lowell and Robert Sigmund. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Letter to Bill Wyatt (2/21/67) and Advertiement for d.a. levy tribute-anthology / sigmund, r.j. (aka rjs)., 1967

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Identifier: CC-60181-10003197
Scope and Contents

rjs requests bill wyatt for a contribution to the d.a. levey anthology. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[letter to dawid v harrass (david harris) from d.a.levy] / note to david w harris from rjs / note to david w harris from R.r Wagner /note to david w harris from john w scott] / levy, d.a.; sigmund, r.j. (aka rjs); Wagner, D.r.; scott, john r., 1967

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Identifier: CC-60632-55619
Scope and Contents

The letter deals with a manuscript submitted for publication to david w harris entitled, "The Incense Box" that apparently remained unpublished. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

No.40 Supplement: D.A. LEVY & Other Cleveland Writers / Halsey, Alan ; levy da ; Wyatt B ; Leed J ; Sauls R ; Wagner Dr ; Atkins R ; Butcher G ; EKA ; Fowler G ; Shulman M ; Taylor K ; Kryss TL ; McCord H ; rjs., 1984

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Identifier: CC-32820-34433
Scope and Contents

An archive of correspondence between levy and Bill Wyatt, a British poet, was listed in this catalogue and purchased by the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

No.216: Literature / Asphodel Book Shop ; Lowell J ; levy da ; rjs ; Cook G ; Taylor K ; Kryss TL ; Blazek D ; Bukowski C ; Corita M ; Creeley R ; Griffiths B ; Snyder G ; Sukenick R., 2003

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Identifier: CC-40207-42177
Scope and Contents

The catalogue listed several paintings on paper by levy but before the Sackners could purchase them, they had been sold. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Peaces / sigmund, r.j., aka rjs ; levy da ; Cornillon J ; Jones G., 1966

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Identifier: CC-28495-29770
Scope and Contents

The inscription might be to Grace Butcher, a poet in da levy's circle. The cover drawing was done by Grady Jones and the introductory essay by John Cornillion. The first poem, entitled "Peaces" is a loose listing of permutations of its title, e.g., peA ces, peces pe Aces, Pea c ess, PEA cess, peees ssess, etc. The ink drawing depicts a large calligraphic marking; three other markings, reproduced in mimeographed printing, are scattered throughout this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

[police brutality in Cleveland] / Anonymous: about d.a. levy; rjs; Lowell J; levy da; Ginsberg A; Fugs; Heilbrun S., 1967

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Identifier: CC-60916-10003772
Scope and Contents This polemic deals with the reprecussions of the arrests of d.a. levy and James Lowell on obscenity charges. According to Brandon Thomas DiSabatino on internet: As the regional headlines mark the 50th anniversary of the Hough Riots, I recall a line in a poem by d.a. levy, observing the madness that erupted from July 18th to July 23rd on the east side of Cleveland: they are looting stores trying to get televisions so they can watch the riots/on the 11 pm news It is an image my mind has conjured during riots and subsequent lootings over the past few years "” in Ferguson, in Baltimore "” where the strange, seemingly unmovable biases and struggles of class warfare appear inseparable from the American landscape. levy was born and raised in Cleveland, and he incorporated the Hough Riots in his poetry as he incorporated every aspect of Cleveland during the mid-to-late 60s. His self-described artistic mission was to give the city its own singular breed of poetry, regardless of whether...
Dates: 1967

The Result is Always Circular / sigmund, r.j., aka rjs., 1967

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Identifier: CC-03567-3631
Scope and Contents

The poem deals with the incarceration of rjs (Robert J. Sigmund) on drug charges. rjs was in the circle of poets affiliated with d.a.levy. The cover was designed by T.L. Kryss. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967