Box 543
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Zen Concrete: Translations & a new interpretation of Buddhist Doctrines [with ephemera], 1967
This is the introductory piece of this 23 piece suite of altered mimeographed works. This is a letter to Bill Wyatt, a British poet, that states, "dear bill: i hope you can use this - i have no way to reproduce here - the fugs and allen ginsberg will be doing a benefit for me & jim lowell so we'll at least be able to pay our lawyers - its going to be difficult staying out of jail - establishment here is [swastika symbol] insane - i hope you can afford the return postage on this if you cant use it - if not let me know & ill try to get some return coupons & send them to you..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Zen Concrete: CR AP [scan], 1967
This is one of the 23 pieces in this suite of works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Zen Concrete: That [scan], 1967
This is one of the 23 pieces in this suite of works. The mimeographed, readable text of this piece deals with people and their leaders. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Zen Concrete: day after day [scan], 1967
Zen Concrete: part three [scan], 1967
Zen Concrete: Darcy Justine [scan], 1967
Zen Concrete: Selected Writings [scan], 1967
Zen Concrete: Prose-Poem for La Cave [scan], 1967
Zen Concrete: Totem [scan], 1967
Chalchihuitlicue, 1965
Head Second, 1965
d.a. levy contributed six abstract drawings and Judson Crews wrote the poems in this publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Notes To A High Priestess #2 & #3, 1965
North American Book of the Dead, Parts 1 & 2, 1965
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.
The Box Lunch Travel-og of Fremont Gulch, 1967
happy fuck a llama day, 1966
The image accompanying this poem is an abstraction of a barge (on the Cayuga river flowing through Cleveland) with musical notes eminating from its foghorn. The poem refers to the fact that the river caught on fire because of heavy pollution near the time the poem was written. The title of the poem is "the foghorns of the barges" and reads, sing to me mournful - sing to me mad - sing to me mist and magic - and everyone else as the city sneaks out of the haze - we laugh and throw firecrackers at it." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Notes On The Suicide Of America [as modified from writings of] Hasan Sabbah II, 1966
Wikipedia: Hasan al-Sabbah حسن الصباح was an Iranian missionary and founder of Nizari Ismai'li 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.
Mind, 1966
levy indicates that this piece is to be published in the next Marrahwanna Quarterly. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.