bill bissett designed the cover and contributed line drawings to this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

bill bissett designed the cover and contributed line drawings to this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

bill bissett designed the cover and contributed line drawings to this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

bill bissett designed the cover and contributed line drawings to this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

bill bissett designed the cover and contributed line drawings to this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

bill bissett designed the cover and contributed line drawings to this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Author's second book. The poems were created by David W. Harris, later known as David UU (pronounced "double U," and the drawings by Gordon Payne. This book was designed and printed by bill bissett. The originals of the typewriter poems published in this book, "Monument for a City" and "Verklarte Nacht" are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Author's second book. The poems were created by David W. Harris, later known as David UU (pronounced "double U," and the drawings by Gordon Payne. This book was designed and printed by bill bissett. The originals of the typewriter poems published in this book, "Monument for a City" and "Verklarte Nacht" are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The cover design and two reproduced drawings in the book were done by bill bissett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Includes reproductions of several line drawings by bissett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is profusely illustrated with line drawings and written texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this book, the poem "Quebec Bombers" as Jack David describes it, "begins with the phrase "dirty concrete poet' repeated twice, then changes to "the concrete is dirty dirty,' "sum like it clean what dew they ooo.' . . . the comparison presents the clean ordered life of a capitalist system and the dirty chaotic life of the lower classes." [Lori Emerson internet 2011]. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In a reprinted mimeographed letter from levy to neal emerson, editor of Love, levy writes: "...- just sent you 2lbs of poetry mags etc & wish you luck - i cant take it here much longer & hope ill be leaving the city in one way or another very soon - i just wan to let you know that when you get busted for trying to communicate, when you get busted for trying to love... some catholic is going to get a nice paying promotion into the city hierarchy - so your blood wasnt a complete waste - yrs in the slow death d.a. levy.Some of these poems were published previously, e.g., red lady, the madiason envelope, etc.According to a letter from Alan Horvath, the publisher of this book, most copies including the Sackner copy were printed with a blue flip cover with a red image. A rarer copy had a brown cover with a black image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poems are written in modified English and French spellings employed by bill bissett who also provided several line drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.