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R. J. S. (Robert J. Sigmund)

 Person

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

CHRISTMAS, 1967

 Item — Box 543: [Barcode: 31858072461068]
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 [1 page], 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

Cleveland: Nov 24, 1968 [2 pages], 1968

 Item — Box 610: [Barcode: 31858072460862]
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

flp business letter #4562, 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

[police brutality in Cleveland], 1967

 Item — Box 617: [Barcode: 31858072461027]
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 (among others). 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,...
Dates: 1967