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.

This is the English version of the "Le tricot etait..." another print made by Finlay. The image of this print in Finlay's book Prints 1963-1997 is depicted in black whereas this version is printed in red. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Geof Huth contributed an essay, "Labor Archives in the University at Albany, State University of New York." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Backer (1925-2003) was the editor of Neue Texte. Adam Lerner contributed a forward to the catalog in which he described Backer as a "life artist" because he devoted the entire body of his life's work to an enterprise that comprised a movement toward a single goal - dedicating his career as a photographer, sculpture, poet and editor to" coming to terms with his teenage involvement in the Hitler Youth and the Nazi Party." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title translates in English to "Knitting was a reserved occupation" and Finlay has done another print with the same layout as this one in English. It is a reference to a quotation made in 1794 in the French revolution. Finlay then directs it at the editorial board of the Art Press who contributed to the refusal of his Parisian commission. He equates "occupation" to a hostile force "occupying" a country and in turn addresses them as "knitters." He also did a picture poem card on "knitters." The image of this print in Finlay's book Prints 1963-1997 is depicted in black whereas this version is printed in red. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This brochure, reprinted from Sculpture magazine, was sent to the Sackners by Kim Foster Gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book consists of newsprint pages with like covers. Includes reproduced newspaper clippings, found art, advertisements, collages. Poems accompany and embellish select clippings. Cover is photo of VP Nelson Rockefeller giving someone the finger. Another news photo is Virginia police frisking a couple Hari Krishna's posing as Santas. Stored in Yeah magazine box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Discusses recent immigration bill in Great Britain. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this letter, Inman strikes a conciliatory tone with lwvy and tries to help build up his confidence. Stored with levy material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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

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.

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.

levy comments in this letter about the politics of Steve Slavik. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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.

The finely handwritten text can only be read in a few phrases, where the lines are not densely layered. They include diary passages that read, "ready to join the union. Last week he was arrested on 146th street...He plans to learn a trade in prison - to compete with eight million unemployed...Sunday, July 6, 1941." this piece was lent to the Jewish museum in Berlin in 2003. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Jean Vilar was the director of the Theatre national populaire who in 1949 declared, "The pimpa, the whores, sailors, workers, students, concierges, bus drivers, tramps, neighborhood shopkeepers, the pretty young girls on the street, all mixed inside the theater are better for our dramatic literature than the Saint-Sulpicien, the orthodox Marxist, or the committed literi and the ex-prince of the black market." (Walesman; The heroic City: Paris 1945-1958). This polemic with text structured like a telegram from the Lettristes is critical of Villar's current direction (1952) that is taking for the TNP. The peice is not depicted in Acquaviva's Bientot les Lettristes (1946-1977). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.