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This book has been signed and stamped as the property of Lewis Turco. da levy printed this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The cover was designed by Carl Woideck and d.a. levy provided a humorous introduction that was written in February 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The newsprint collaged onto the cover is the banner header of The Cleveland Pot. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

levy indicates that this piece is to be published in the nextMarrahwanna Quarterly. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book includes a reprint of "plastic saxophone found in an egyptian tomb" and reprints of concrete poems from marrahwannah quarterly and cleveland concrete. The cover was designed by alan horvath. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

According to Kent Taylor in a personal communication (1997) to the Sackners, this was d.a levy's third book. The individual pages comprising the book are printed with different colored inks but all pages are the same dimensions. The cover is a light gray with the title printed on three lines. This is the first printing of the book. The Sackner Archive also holds the "second printing" of the book that has major differences in conten and layout. According to Jim Lowell, only 10 to 15 copies are extant. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book includes 12 reproductions of visuals by levy from the book by Adele Simons, "Show Me Voyage." The cover was done by richard werner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This second printing of the book differs greatly from the first printing and should probably be considered a revision. The Sackner Archive also holds the "first printing" of the book. The title is printed on a single line of the white paper cover in this version. There are fewer poems in the second page and a center section for leaves of smaller dimension than the rest of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The theme of this poem (with many typographic errors) deals with Zen and a hallucinatory trip to an afterlife place whose description was inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book includes reprints of "The North American Book of the Dead," Polluted Lake Series 11," Marrahwannah Newsletter #1 and Cleveland undercovers. The cover was designed by alan horvath. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Cover design by d.a.levy. Atkins is a black poet whose earlier book, "Objects" was published in 1960. In "Objects 2," there are poems that are the same and others different from "Objects." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem by contributed by da levy in this anthology is an autobiographical account of his growing-up and his Jewish experience with his father. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the 2nd edition of the the book that was originally publisHed by 7 Flowers Press. The cover print was done by MaRa. This is stored in d.a.levy 7 Flowers box.It was considered one of the allegedly obscene books and seized by the Cleveland police in December 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The cover drawing (gouache, watercolor) was made by maRa. The two issues have distinctly different images. Printed by d.a. levy who ran this press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.