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levy, d.a., 1942-1968

 Person

Staff Only

Dates

  • Existence: 1942 October 29 - 1968 November 24

Parallel Names

  • Levy, D. A.
  • Levy, DA

Nationality

American

Found in 258 Collections and/or Records:

Polluted Lake Series, No. 12: Shadows Over Lake Erie, 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-04369-4451
Scope and Contents

Edited by d.a.levy. DagmaR [Polokovs] aka Mara was levy's common-in-law wife. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PERIODICALS / NON-COMMERCIAL AND ARTIST PERIODICALS / Polluted Lake Series

Portrait, 1966

 Item — Box 543: [Barcode: 31858072461068]
Identifier: CC-60411-56274
Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / 1966

Private No Parking, 1972

 Item — Box 544: [Barcode: 31858072461050]
Dates: 1972
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / Posthumous [1969-2008]

Prose: on poetry in the wholesale education and culture system (second printing), 1968

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-48097-69120
Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / 1968

PROSE: on poetry in the wholesale education & culture system, 1974

 Item — Box 544: [Barcode: 31858072461050]
Dates: 1974
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / Posthumous [1969-2008]

PROSE on poetry in the wholesale education & culture system (first printing), 1968

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60481-10003386
Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / 1968

Purgatorio, 1964

 Item — Box 543: [Barcode: 31858072461068]
Identifier: CC-07664-7809
Scope and Contents

This poem, along with Reality Jew, was sent to Ted Berrigan, editor of the magazine "C," for possible publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / 1964

radiant danse uv being, 2006

 Item
Dates: 2006
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

Random Sightings (d.a. has left the building), 1999

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-48658-69690
Scope and Contents

The cover photograph is by Alan Horvath. Includes several poems and polemics against the Vietnam war as handwritten manuscripts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / Posthumous [1969-2008]

Random Sightings [Reprint], 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33510-35159
Scope and Contents

Several poems are word portraits of artists that include Francis Bacon, William Baziotes, James Ensor, Paul Gauguin, Turner, and Robert Motherwell. The book also includes reprints of levy's introductory essay to 306, 5 Cleveland Poems, you murders with your indifference, and the "IN" Group. The cover was designed by Alan Horvath, the publisher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

Random Sightings (The Egyptian Stroboscope Sessions), 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-52257-73379
Scope and Contents

Most of the copies of the first printing in an edition of 108 copies were confiscated by the Cleveland Police in the notorious raid of Jim Lowell's book store in 1966. The second printing by grass coin publishing in 1967 had a different cover, a modified title page & did not contain an index section. This third posthumous printing presented here is a reproduction of the original, the unique page from the second edition as well as the original manuscript pages. The cover silkscreen of this third printing was done by Mike Schaefer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / Posthumous [1969-2008]

Random Sightings (With No One Around); letters from d.a. levy, 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-47224-49967
Scope and Contents

This book consists of letters in reproduction from d.a. levy to his friends. The originals were handwritten, typed, and mimeographed. In addition, several of levy's abstract expressionistic paintings are reproduced in color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

Reality Stinks! , 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-07194-7335
Scope and Contents

Most of the text deals with Buddhist themes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Red Lady, 1969

 Item — Box 544: [Barcode: 31858072461050]
Identifier: CC-07195-7336
Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / Posthumous [1969-2008]

Red Lady, 1970

 Item — Box 544: [Barcode: 31858072461050]
Identifier: CC-62262-56260
Scope and Contents

This is the 2nd editiion and the 1st Canadian edition of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / Posthumous [1969-2008]

Rejection Letter to Dante Thomas, 1968

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60415-10003359
Scope and Contents

This is a 1/2 page, eight line, handwritten letter signed by levy of a poem submitted by Dante Thomas for a d.a. levy publication.It was priced by Captain Ahab's Rare Books at $1,250. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / 1968

Satori while praying in the bathroom, 1966

 Item — Box 543: [Barcode: 31858072461068]
Identifier: CC-60420-10003360
Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / 1966

Scarab, 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-06810-6931
Scope and Contents

The text consists mainly of dense overtyping of repetitive phrases collaged onto cardboard as a 2 x 3 grid such as "interior of my sphere," "thee like Ra, he praises," etc. The frottaged image in the middle right grid is a bony thorax overlaid by letraset formed words, SCARAB and SCARAB. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / Oversized

Scarab Poems, 2nd Edition, 1996

 Item — Box 544: [Barcode: 31858072461050]
Identifier: CC-45028-47204
Scope and Contents

Poems were composed by d.a.levy in 1967 and most of the originals are held by the Sackner Archive. The covers differ between the 1st and 2nd editions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / Posthumous [1969-2008]

Scarab Poems 1967-1978, 1978

 Item — Box 544: [Barcode: 31858072461050]
Identifier: CC-07262-7405
Scope and Contents

Poems were composed by d.a.levy in 1967 and most of the originals are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / Posthumous [1969-2008]