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The silkscreen cover was made by T.L. Kryss. The theme of the poems concerns anti-Vietnam war. The poet's name is a psudonym for Don Foster of Denton, Texas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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...