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Wyatt, Bill

 Person

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Kibbutz In The Sky, Book I, 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60427-56221
Scope and Contents

In the letter to billl wyatt on the cover, levy muses about a third part of the poem (only two parts were published) in which he plans "i think will be a defense of the county sherriffs (sic) office - they were pretty good to me considering all the lip i gave them - was on radio & T.V." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Letter exchange with Bill Wyatt, re: eating meat: [jesus & buddha sed something...], 1966

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60898-10003758
Scope and Contents

Wyatt wrote the Haiku regarding eating animal meat anf levy responded as follows. "It isn't what goes in yr mouth thats imortant, it is what comes out of yr mouth." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Letter from Kay Wood to Bill Wyatt, re: d.a. levy's indictment: [Merci, beaucoup - some may be of use...], 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-48441-69469
Scope and Contents

This letter deals with levy's upcomng hearing on an obscenity charge. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Letter to Bill Wyatt including two poems THE LION & tHE mARK, re: religion and book distribution: [10 copies of yr book on the way too you...], 1965

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60896-10003756
Scope and Contents

In this letter, levy discusses the discrimination against 'negroes' and the wrongful assasinations of Kennedy and Malcom X. He states that he took drugs for the first time including peyote, pot, acid, belladonna and hash and "I am quite tired." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Letter to Bill Wyatt, re: American food: [now eating sunday dinners...], 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60901-56230
Scope and Contents

levy laments about food coloring in the United States particularly with regard to cooking hamburgers and closes with the following. We need a poet Kibbutz - KAPOTS KAPOTE KA KA KABOOM. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Letter to Bill Wyatt, re: depression: [dont be depressed...], 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-33539-35189
Scope and Contents

The poem within this letter deals with Dagmar and levy's ambivalence toward her as his muse. It is undated but most of the correspondence to bill wyatt took place in March of 1967. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Letter to Bill Wyatt, re: MQ (vol. 2, no. 4): [we just started on the next MQ (vol 2 #4)] and Light On, The Old Test, 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60915-56224
Scope and Contents

The mailing envelope (dated May 12, 1967) to BILL WYATT + chris Torrance has a label on its left upper corner that reads "SMUT DOES NOT MELT IN YOUR HANDS." The recto of the letter to BIll Wyatt closes with "the best Way to fry yr enemies is to pray for their enlightenment." The verso of this letter deals with comments on the Assyrian Kings. levy ends his diatribe as follows. "SHAZAM" - this is turning into one of ed sander's' mongolian cluster fucks! forget the light / im turning on with the "Old ASS"/yrs KHU-ED-OHO GUARDIAN of the royal cisttern/d.a. levy bh -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Letter to Bill Wyatt, re: ordering his books: [will you please see...], 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-61024-56273
Scope and Contents

This is a single sentence, signed letter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Letter to Bill Wyatt, re: Renegade 7Flowers: [am sending you a collection of the latest renegade 7flowers press publications...] / [I have given sacrifices...], 1966

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60783-56226
Scope and Contents

The book that levy announces was not published under the title given to it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Letter to Bill Wyatt, re: zen and religion: [oh joyous cosmology freak scene...], 1966

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60897-10003757
Scope and Contents

In this letter, levy tells about his religious, Buddhist experences after ingesting drugs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

The Puking Pidgeon #1 or The Fucking Duck #1 or The Search for the Holy Houkah, 1966

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-07623-7768
Scope and Contents

The painted drawing on the cover was done by levy. Bill Wyatt, is a British poet who carried on a correspondence with levy. Several letters from this interaction are held by the Sackner Archive. Printed by d.a. levy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966