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Box 618

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Contains 96 Results:

Hate Rays: You too can help destroy a nation, 1967

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-33861-35532
Original Sackner Archive Location

The mainfesto deals with profanity. -- 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) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / 1967

Letter to David Harris (dwh), re: poem publishing and cats: [forget about the NABD...], 1967

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-60414-55618
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) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / Correspondence / 1967

Kibbutz In The Sky, Book I, 1967

 Item — Box: 618
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
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. / 1967

Letter to Dawid V Harrass (David Harris), re: manuscript submission: [new mq out in a week...], 1967

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-60632-55619
Scope and Contents

The letter deals with a manuscript submitted for publication to david w harris entitled, "The Incense Box" that apparently remained unpublished. -- 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) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / Correspondence / 1967

Letter to Bill Wyatt, re: Wyatt's latest poems: [fuck a duck wyatt], 1966

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-60782-10003637
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. / Correspondence / 1966

Letter to James Lowell, written on announcement for The Marrahwannah Quarterly Vol. 2, No. 4: [enclosed one new poem...], 1966

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-60785-10003639
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. / Correspondence / 1966

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

 Item — Box: 618
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
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. / Correspondence / 1966

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

 Item — Box: 618
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
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. / Correspondence / 1966

Letter to Bill Wyatt, re: defense fund & father's illness: [can u please write a letter to gene maeroff...], 1967

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-60904-56227
Scope and Contents

levy asks Bill Wyatt to write a letter to the Cleveland Plain Dealer indicating that levy is a poet not a smut peddler. Jonathan Dworkin mentioned in the letter was levy's defense attorney.The verso of the letter is a photocopied exhibition announcement for a Cleveland artist, Phillip Pekarcik. The verso of the envelope is collaged with the label, "GREETINGS FROM SWAMP ERIE." -- 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) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / Correspondence / 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
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
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. / Correspondence / 1967

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
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. / Correspondence / 1964

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

 Item — Box: 618
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
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. / Correspondence / 1967

The JAMES R LOWELL DEFENSE FUND (2), 1967

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-60434-10003366
Scope and Contents

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.

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) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / 1967

Letter to Ingrid Swanberg, re: spirts and "To Sybil": [cats is in...] and [your poem (to sybil) is frighteningly beautiful...], 1968

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-60440-10003372
Scope and Contents

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.

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. / Correspondence / 1968

Letter from Will Inman, re: thoughts and responses: [Thanks for your letter...], 1965

 Item — Box: 618
Identifier: CC-60716-10003571
Scope and Contents

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.

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) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / Correspondence / 1965

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

 Item — Box: 618
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
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. / 1967