Box 618
Contains 97 Results:
The JAMES R LOWELL DEFENSE FUND (2), 1967
The recto of this work sets forth the context of the trial and the verso reproduces a poem by Joe Brainard relating to peace and tranquility. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Letter to Ingrid Swanberg, re: spirts and "To Sybil": [cats is in...] and [your poem (to sybil) is frighteningly beautiful...], 1968
The photocopied contents of this envelope were given to the Sackners by Ingrid Swanberg & are stored in the levy binder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Letter from Will Inman, re: thoughts and responses: [Thanks for your letter...], 1965
This letter is stored in levy binder.Thanks levy for sending him artwork which he has framed and hanged. Asks the question, 'What is dexamyl?" Inman comments on Irving Fiske, "a pompous tub of shit." [Wikipedia: Irving Fiske (March 5, 1908 "“ April 25, 1990) born Irving Fishman in Brooklyn, New York, was a playwright, inventor, freelance writer, and speaker. He is associated with Quarry Hill Creative Center, the Fiske family property, in Rochester, Vermont]. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Beginning of Sunny Dawn [signed], 1968
The cover was designed by Sandy Webb. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Beginning of Sunny Dawn, 1968
Cover was designed by Sandy Webb. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
(Completely Covered) Random Sightings [The Cleveland Undercovers Sessions], 2001
According to Horvath, "These nine unpublished drafts of 'cleveland undercovers' trace the poem's progression from its single sheet origin to a 16 page manuscript containing sections which were later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.
(Uh..One & Uh..Two) Random Sightings, 2001
This book includes reproductions of "Book 14 T that consisted of abstract markings rendered on the mimeograph machine. The book reproduces 'The Para-Concrete Manifesto (1996)' is from the original mimeograph printing. Some of the pages inside 'untitled (1964)' also reproduced in the book were based upon images used for levy's '6 cleveland prints' (renegade press, 1964). There were 5 copies published; probably each one different from the other. Here, copy #2. is reprinted. The pages are colored abstract markings with some containing letter pictures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Prose: on poetry in the wholesale education and culture system (second printing), 1968
Admissible Evidence (Random Sightings), 2003
In addition to the poetry of levy and Taylor, this book depicts reproductions of photographs of the poets and their circle. The poems in this book and the CD were made from a tape of readings by levy & Taylor (January 1967) provided by B.L.Kennedy and created in a limited edition by Ingrid Swanberg at Ghost Pony Press in 2000. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
(Invisible) Random Sightings, 1999
This issue contains a photograph that is reprinted and reproduced in (Uh..One & Uh..Two) Random Sightings. The cover photograph is by Alan Horvath. Reprints numerous collages from Serif (volume 8, number 4, 1972, Marijuana Newsletter #2 (1965), The Day is a Prayer they Can't Understand (1967), Cleveland Undercovers (1966), All Gods Must Learn to Kill (1967). Also reprints Farewell the Floating Cunt (1964) in its entirety. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Random Sightings (d.a. has left the building), 1999
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.
Black (cover), 1966
Khu-En-Oho is another name for d.a. levy -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The booklet is formed from three poems: "Black Hat : At the End of the Bar,"3 American Tanka"/"3 Tanks," and "Egyptian Stroboscope." Though they do not appear in the table of contents, four other shorter poems are mingled throughout: "Iron Cross of the Sun," "SCrape the SKY-rapeR,"Flying Muslim," and "Judgement I."
Kibbutz In The Sky, Book II, 1967
This prose poem deals with levy resigned to turning himself in to serve his sentence for the obscenity charge. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Letter to H.K. and John S., re: poetry: Funny thing..., 1967
Cannot identify H.K. but J.S. i is probably John Scott.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The JAMES R LOWELL DEFENSE FUND (1), 1967
This work lists books seized by Cleveland police from Asphodel Book shop. almost all the books and several of the magazines are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The James R. Lowell Defense Fund would include levy as well, which some refer to as the Lowell-levy (or levy-Lowell) Defense Fund. These funds aided Lowell and levy in their respective court battles.
