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This issue lists reprints from the Kirpan Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The deaths of Carolyn Kryss, Alan Horvath, Len Fulton and Hugh Fox are mentioned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive lent several works of the three artist-poets to the exhibition including Cleveland Prints, The North American Book of the Dead, Scarab Poems by d.a. levy; The Journal of Albion Moonlight, Cloth of the Tempest, Sleepers Awake by Kenneth Patchen; 18th Dynasty Egyptian Turnon by D.r. Wagner. Although there was no check list with the catalogue, the superb installation photographs of the books and prints in cases more than make up for this oversight. The suite of collages entitled Zen Concrete on display at this exhibition were purchased by the Sackners from Ingrid Swanberg in 2008. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ingrid Swanberg comments on a photocopy of an envelope depicted in one of the folded sheets: Marvin - all the following were enclosed in this envelope, which I received a week or so after levy's death. Note: no return address [however, it is postmarked San Francisco]. See my essay "No Last Words." The Archive includes a letter to Dr Wagner in 1968, raw material clipped from magazines for potential collages, Buddhist art images and a letter to an unidentified recipient. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In his essay, Karl Young describes d.a. levy in his any facets e.g. spiritual poet, warrior against repression and conformity, quiet scribe and nihilist non-conformer. This web site for levy notes that the only existing critical text published about his life and works is Ingrid Swanberg's "Zen Concrete and etc." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Joel Lipman quotes from the Sackner Archive catalogue of 1984 on page 170 of the Sackners opinion of levy's works. Douglas Manson contributes a scathing rview of Mike Golden's book, The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle." The dvd is an edited copy of a documentary film "if i scratch, if i write" about da levy by Kon Petrochuk first made in 1985 and fully realized for this book.Page 28 "February 1967 sees the launching of the Underground Thought Patrol, so named by John Scott, as a way of bluffing about inside sources of information, and playing off the group's interest in telepathy (Scott named it after a Frank Zappa song, "Who Are the Brain Police?"). A photo from an earlier Gate reading assigned those in the photo as the UTP, including: rjs, D.r. Wagner, Kent Taylor, John Cornillon, Walter R. Keller, Carl Woideck. The group is projected tribe of sympathetic listeners who announce police warnings and have great fun cutting up; the first time the term UTP appears in print is in...

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Swanberg (aka Markhardt) analyzes levy's poem, "Selected Writings" of 1967, "in which no images appear and in which the words and lines bleed with a superabundance of black mimeo ink ringed by a faint aura of oil...The poem's destructive writing is a putting to death of words. Its realm is without mastery, without time. It is the instant of a complete spending, in which words are sacrificed and the poem IS." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Stored in D.r Wagner box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.