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Box 618

 Container

Contains 97 Results:

Letter to David Harris (dwh), re: sending stamps: [wrote you a lettre asking if you had or could save any stamps...], 1966

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-60629-55613
Scope and Contents

levy discusses stamp collecting and asks for article about concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Letter to David Harris (dwh): [urgent], 1966

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-60630-55614
Scope and Contents

The letter reads urgenT/ poems stolen need copies of BERET...BY may 5th.. when us fleye due.....? -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Letter to David Harris (dwh), re: arson and trial: [u dont understand...], 1967

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-60631-55611
Scope and Contents

This letter deals with arson of a coffe shop in Cleveland and artworks destroyed. levy ruminates abput hIs upcoming pornography trial. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Letter to David Harris (dwh), re: boredom and apathy: [BLEW BOOK yours to burn|eat|distri-butte...], 1967

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-60701-55599
Original Sackner Archive Location

The opening sentence of this card reads "BLEW BOOK yours to BURN | EAT | DISTR-BUTTE| anything you want to do with it... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Letter to David Harris (dwh), re: sending material: [just herd that r.j.s. got 6 months!!!], 1967

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-60702-55602
Scope and Contents

levy mentions WORK-HOUSE sentence and also asks harris for cement ["concrete poetry" MAS interpretation] from him and other poets if "you will cut stencils -for -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Letter to David Harris (dwh), re: Steve Slavik: [im pretty sure slavik is ok...], 1968

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-60704-55616
Scope and Contents

levy comments in this letter about the politics of Steve Slavik. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Letter to Will Inman, re: seeking literature: [i changed my mind...], 1964

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-60714-10003569
Scope and Contents

The note reads "will. i changed my mind tore up letter nothing is urgent -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. The rest of the message is typed.

Dates: 1964

Letter to Will Inman, re: anxiety: [today is saturday...] / PATA COURT ROOM CHANT, 1965

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-60715-10003570
Scope and Contents

The drawing includes a Tibetan chant. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

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
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
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 exchange with Will Inman, re: self-loathing and drugs: [of course im egocentric...], 1967

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-60902-10003761
Scope and Contents

This letter is about levy's self-pitying, depressive state of mind regarding the events surrounding him such as the Vietnam war and the assult on drugs. levy also castigates Inman for his anti-drug stand. According to the envelope, this letter was mailed March 8, 1967. -- 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
Identifier: CC-61024-56273
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1967

Letter exchange with Jacob Leed, re: poem request: [you will have to order them thru Jim...], 1966

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-07341-7485
Scope and Contents

Leed requests copies of his book, Poems, but levy replies that he must order them from Jim Lowell. levy also mentions that he is going to New York for a poetry reading. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Letter to Jacob Leed, re: Paris Review: [just heard Paris Review is doing a concrete issue...], 1968

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-07339-7483
Scope and Contents

levy wrutes about contributions of concrete poetry being solicited for a forthcoming issue of Paris Review. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Letter to Jacob Leed, re: permission to publish: [did you receive my last letter?], 1966

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-07340-7484
Scope and Contents

levy requests permission to publish Leed's poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966