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levy, d.a., 1942-1968

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1942 October 29 - 1968 November 24

Parallel Names

  • Levy, D. A.
  • Levy, DA

Nationality

American

Found in 404 Collections and/or Records:

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

 Item
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

Nola Express. No.81 / levy da., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-30830-32276
Scope and Contents

Contains d.a. levy's poem, "the bells of Cherokee ponies." Also, the cover was designed by d.a.levy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Non-Sectarian Crucifixion / levy, d.a.., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-28462-29731
Scope and Contents

Image is an oil paint semi-realistic sketch of an individual held on a crucifix. The major colors are browns on a white primed background. Geoffrey Cook who owned the painting wrote to the Sackners that "although d.a. was most secular, he was deeply aware of his Jewishness: 'I am a levy of the levites,' and did not wish to have these paintings seen totally in a Christian historical context. I believe, though, levy was drawn to the suffering represented in our own culture by the icon of the cruxifixion because of the suffering he actually felt in his own life. I don't think that the markings below to the right have a significance, I believe they can be explained by the action painting technique." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

North American Book of the Dead Part 1 & 2 / levy, d.a.., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-07248-7391
Scope and Contents

The theme of this poem (with many typographic errors) deals with Zen and a hallucinatory trip to an afterlife place whose description was inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

(Not So) Random Sightings [1965 - 1966] / levy, d.a. ; Bukowski C ; Berge C ; Sanders E ; Denis A., 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-47225-49968
Scope and Contents

This book includes reprints of "The North American Book of the Dead," Polluted Lake Series 11," Marrahwannah Newsletter #1 and Cleveland undercovers. The cover was designed by alan horvath. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

[note to bill wyatt on page from 465 an anthology of cleveland poets that consists of poems by Joel Friedman and Bennet ]Hassink: note by d.a.levy / levy, d.a.., 1966

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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

Notes On The Suicide Of America [as modified from writings of] Hasan Sabbah II / levy, d.a.., 1966

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Identifier: CC-45380-47570
Scope and Contents

Wikipedia: Hassan-i Sabbāh (Persian: حسن صباح"Ž; 1050s"“1124) was a NizārÄ« Ismā"Ä«lÄ« missionary who converted a community in the late 11th century in the heart of the Alborz Mountains of northern Persia. He later seized a mountain fortress called Alamut and used it as the headquarters for a decentralized Persian insurrection against the dominant Seljuk Turks. He founded a group of fedayeen whose members are often referred to as the Hashshashin, or "Assassins". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Notes: Variations on a Short Poem / levy, d.a.., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-07337-7481
Scope and Contents

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

objectionable perspectives: poetry & other objectionable materials, 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-30831-32277
Scope and Contents

Most of the material in this book has been published in small press periodicals; a number of pieces have been reworked. This book is designated Outlands four. Includes three pages in homage to the wisdom of d.a. levy and 3 pages reprinted from "twenty bottoms," curry's pornographic book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

objectionable perspectives: poetry & other objectionable materials / curry, jw ; levy da., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-30832-32278
Scope and Contents

Most of the material in this book has been published in small press periodicals; a number of pieces have been reworked. This book is designated Outlands four. Includes three pages in homage to the wisdom of d.a. levy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Ode to Life / Taylor, Kent ; levy, d.a.., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-48759-69793
Scope and Contents

This work is also designated as Card 12 from "Stories from the Flats." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Ohio City Series: Got Butter On It. No.6 / d.a. levy., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-05188-5288
Scope and Contents

Edited by d.a.levy. Theme relates to signs that might have appeared in a newspaper or magazine that advertised "bread." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Ole Anthology / Blazek, Douglas, editor ; Bukowski C ; levy da ; Plymell C ; Taylor K ; Wagner Dr ; Harwood L ; Kryss TL ; grapes m ; Fisher S ; Cornillon J ; Norse H ; Morra A ; O'Connelly B ; Eigner L ; Dowden G ; Richmond S ; Orlovitz G ; Depew W ; Montgomery G ; Krech R ; Saleh D., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-23012-23449
Scope and Contents

The poetry selected in this anthology appeared in the first eight issues of "Ole" from 1964-1967. Stored in Ole magazine box. One of 5000 numbered copies, though far fewer than that were acually produced. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Outsider, The: For Kenneth Patchen. No.4-5 / Lou Webb, Jon Webb, editors ; Patchen K ; levy da ; Johnson R ; MacLow J ; Williams E ; Knowles A ; Kryss TL ; Hollo A ; Antin D ; Higgins D ; Merton T ; Miller B ; Blazek D ; Porter B ; Patchen M ; Meltzer D ; Bukowski C ; Edson R ; Hansen A ; Ginsberg A ; Plymell C ; Perchik S ; Wantling W ; DiPrima D ; Meltzer D ; Ferlinghetti L ; Blazek D ; Miller B ; Bly R ; Dowden G ; Cocteau J., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-05254-5357
Scope and Contents

This is the most visually exiting issue of the periodical. It was available in a hard cover and stiff cover edition. The Sackner Archive copy holds the stiff cover version. There is a section that deals with remembrances of Kenneth Patchen by other poets and writers as well as an interview of Patchen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968