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levy, d.a., 1942-1968

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1942 October 29 - 1968 November 24

Parallel Names

  • Levy, D. A.
  • Levy, DA

Nationality

American

Found in 206 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

Cleveland Undercovers, 1966

 Item — Box 543: [Barcode: 31858072461068]
Identifier: CC-07242-7385
Scope and Contents

The cover of this copy was designed by dagmaR. Sixty-five copies had "freak covers." According to an essay in Congress No.1, this book was seized by Cleveland Police for obscenity from Asphodel Book Store in 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

(Completely Covered) Random Sightings [The Cleveland Undercovers Sessions], 2001

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-40257-42228
Scope and Contents

According to Horvath, "These nine unpublished drafts of 'cleveland undercovers' trace the poem's progression from its single sheet origin to a 16 page manuscript containing sections which were later removed. None of the early versions contained the 'Introduction' which only appeared with the published poem. 'cleveland undercovers' was initially printed by 7 flowers press." The cover print was based upon a photograph published in a 1966 edition of the Cleveland Press by David Pishnery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

(Definitely) Random Sightings, 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34180-35865
Scope and Contents

This book includes a reprint of "the cement fuck,"some previously unpublished prints, painting and postcards. The cover photograph was taken by alan horvath. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Dreams at the Tea-Table, 1963

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-24046-24496
Scope and Contents

d.a. levy owned Renegade Press. According to Kent Taylor in a personal communication (1997) to the Sackners, this was the fourth book published by the Renegade Press and the first not written by levy. Beck was a Cleveland police officer whom levy befriended. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Farewell The Floating Cunt, 1964

 Item — Box 544: [Barcode: 31858072461050]
Identifier: CC-51238-72326
Scope and Contents

This book includes three abstract letterpress prints. In this book, levy repetitively prints an obscene word in varied typefaces and layouts, one to a page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

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

For Levy's Defense, 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-07268-7411
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts silkscreened portrait of levy and includes a handwritten inscription, "25 [cents] for levy's defense." The tipped-in silkscreen print on the page was probably made by levy. The text admonishes the people of Cleveland for the treatment of levy. According to a letter from Alan Horvath, this is the first version of the book that was subsequently published with a different cover/title page. Further, he indicated that pages were missing from the Sackner copy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Forever Worship the Second Coming, 1968

 Item — Box 350: [Barcode: 31858072490869]
Identifier: CC-23190-23628
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by Tom Kyyss. r.j.s. stands for Robert J. Sigmond, a poet who at age 19 years was incarcerated by the Cleveland authorities for six months because of using marijuana. d.a.levy's poem in this book, "Indictment of the City of Cleveland for Contributing to the Delinquency of Minors" describes that episode. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Fragments of a Shattered Mirror, 1963

 Item — Box 544: [Barcode: 31858072461050]
Identifier: CC-07617-7762
Scope and Contents

According to Kent Taylor in a personal communication (1997) to the Sackners, this was d.a levy's first book. Further, he believes that "Dave" in the inscription was Dave Williams, a boy friend of Taylor's first wife, levy's cousin, Joan. Several copies were destroyed from the run and Jim Lowell estimated that only 10-15 copies remained intact. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Fragments of a Shattered Mirror [Reprint], 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33512-35161
Scope and Contents

The cover of this reprinted book, first published in 1963, was designed by dave pishnery. This book also includes reproductions of four covers designed by levy for The Free Lance and Cleveland Poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999