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Sum

Edited by Carl Woideck, Sum ran for three issues from 1966 to 1968 and was published out of Lakewood, Ohio

1. SUM, No. 1, edited by Carl Woideck
Lakewood: Sum, 1966
First edition, saddle-stapled in collaged and painted wrappers, 4.25” x 5.5”, 22 pages, mimeograph printed.

“sum – a time of meeting of spirits” – c.w.

  • Contents:
    1. Hak and Jean Vogrin – “There’s a Bird in My Attic”
      Kent Taylor – “Aug 2, 1965”
      Kent Taylor – [untitled] “pressures in the head…”
      Kent Taylor – [untitled] “chimney apartments…”
      Tom Szuter – [untitled] “three earthenware cups…”
      Carl Woideck – “Jumping Horses”
      Hak Vogrin – [untitled] “The moon was seen…”

2. SUM, No. 2, edited by Carl Woideck
Lakewood: Sum, 1966
First edition, saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 5.5” x 8.5”, 20 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Hak Vogrin.

“for what it’s worth, this is the Indian sum, and I hope the magazine explains what that means.”

  • Contents:
    1. Lyndon Puw – “Sunday Morning”
      Anne McCormick – “When Flash and Clap Collaborate”
      d.a. levy – “They Have Stolen my Dream Time”
      Kent Taylor – “John Handy’s Spanish Lady”
      Grace Butcher – “1/17/66”
      Randy Rhody – “The Honeylight Moon”
      Carl Woideck – For Elarka”
      Carl Woideck – “Blue-Sky Summer Poem”
      A. Greenshoot [pseud. Jim Lowell] – “The Rock”

3. SUM, No. 3, edited by Carl Woideck
Sacramento: Sum, c.1968
First edition, saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 5.5” x 8.5”, 32 pages, mimeograph printed. Illustrations by Hak Vogrin. Cover art by Lisa Bowden

“sky like mountains / hills, ocean / moon, a marble”

  • Contents:
    1. D.r. Wagner – “Some of Them Old Songs”
      Phil Weidman – “Her Businesses”
      Phil Weidman – “Peephole”
      Peter Wild – “Sun”
      Peter Wild – “Sniper”
      San Grolmes – “Overwards”
      Joel Friedman – [untitled] “jagg’d on the crest-piece…”
      Dave Kelly – “They all Look like That after Football Games”
      Terry Stokes – “The Formal Protest”
      Kent Taylor – “3-18-68 (for Jack Kerouac)
      d.a. levy – [untitled] “the sunlight shining thru…”
      T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “strange they way they…”
      D.r. Wagner – [untitled] “It is morning…”
      Joel Friedman – [untitled] “snap’d fingers…”
      Joel Friedman – “For Janie H.”
      Bill Wyatt – “Three Landscape Poems”
      Peter Wild – “Fish”
      Peter Wild – “Farm”
      Peter Wild – “Headlight”
      Carl Woideck – [untitled] “wheat germ…”
      Carl Woideck – [untitled] “two cities…”
      D.r. Wagner – [untitled] “He though there was some reason…”
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The Silver Cesspool

THE SILVER CESSPOOL, Vol. 1, edited by d.a. levy (1963)

The first of d.a. levy’s periodicals, five issues of The Silver Cesspool were published between 1963 and 1964. The short-lived periodical was letterpress printed by levy and featured block prints from Lester Czaban Jr., Charlene Levey, Russell Salamon, John Konyecsni, and levy. Contributors over the five issues included Kent Taylor, Russell Atkins, Adelaide Simon, Judson Crews, Kirby Congdon, Will Inman, Ted Berrigan, A. Greenshoot [pseud. Jim Lowell], and others.

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The Silver Cesspool

The first of d.a. levy’s periodicals, five issues of The Silver Cesspool were published between 1963 and 1964. The short-lived periodical was letterpress printed by levy and featured block prints from Lester Czaban Jr., Charlene Levey, Russell Salamon, John Konyecsni, and levy. Contributors over the five issues included Kent Taylor, Russell Atkins, Adelaide Simon, Judson Crews, Kirby Congdon, Will Inman, Ted Berrigan, A. Greenshoot [pseud. Jim Lowell], and others.

1. THE SILVER CESSPOOL, Vol. 1, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1963

First edition, saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 20 pages, c.100 copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Illustrated with block prints by Lester Czaban Jr. (Lowell B1, T&H P-08)

  • Contents:
    1. Jau Billera – “Mulligan Stew”
      Jau Billera – “Time”
      Jau Billera – “Bowery”
      Jau Billera – “Legless”
      Jau Billera – “The Party”
      Jau Billera – “Insomnia”
      Russell Salamon – “Night 1”
      Russell Salamon – “Night 2”
      Russell Salamon – “Autumn”
      Russell Salamon – “Season Circle”
      Russell Salamon – [untitled] “The fragile prey that…”
      d.a. levy – “Faustian”
      d.a. levy – “In Van Gogh I View”
      d.a. levy – “Love”
      d.a. levy – “Monument to Death”
      d.a. levy – “Edgewater Park”
      d.a. levy – “Balboa Park”
      Kent Taylor – “Jewelry”
      Kent Taylor – “Trite Things”
      Kent Taylor – “Flotsam”
      Kent Taylor – “To D.B.”
      Kent Taylor – “Changing”
      Kent Taylor – “Visions”

2. THE SILVER CESSPOOL, Vol. 2, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964

First edition, saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 16 pages,c.100 copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. (Lowell B1, T&H P-34)

  • Contents:
    1. David Jeffery – “Etchings & Such”
      Russell Atkins – “Objects on a Table”
      Loring Williams – “Retrospect”
      Jau Billera – “The Sullen Sound”
      d.a. levy – “The River”
      Kent Taylor – “Shapes”
      Irene Schramm – [untitled] “We wait the downpour…”
      Stephen Massaro – “Waterfront Sketch II”
      Adelaide Simon – [untitled] “To reach the age where…”
      Russell Salamon – “A Morning”

3. THE SILVER CESSPOOL, Vol. 3, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964

First edition, saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 20 pages, c.100 copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Illustrated with block prints by Charlene Levey (“Ecstatic Nomad”), Lester Czaban Jr. (“Stealing”), and Russell Salamon (“The Trial”). (Lowell B1, T&H P-35)

  • Contents:
    1. Frank Ankenbrand Jr. – “To a Ship’s Figurehead”
      Kent Taylor – “To the Suicides of The Golden Gate Bridge”
      Irene Schramm – “Birthday Poem”
      Russell Atkins – “Lake in a Storm”
      d.a. levy – “Autumn Leaves, for Susan”
      L.S. Torgoff – “Portrait of Lisa”
      Julie Suk – “Life Class”
      Fay Fox – “Figure-Ground”
      L.S. Torgoff – “A Litany for the Alphabet”
      Irene Schramm – “Letter to Joan Brown”
      Russell Salamon – “For a Poet”
      Adelaide Simon – [untitled] “Painting my bathroom purple…”
      d.a. levy – “To Cleveland on the Understanding of a Poet, for Hadassah”

4. THE SILVER CESSPOOL, Vol. 4, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964

First edition, saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 16 pages,c.100 copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Illustrated with block prints by John Konyecsni (“Birds”) and d.a. levy (“A Night at Uxmal”). (Lowell B1, T&H P-36)

  • Contents:
    1. Judson Crews – “Thoughts on Returning”
      Kirby Congdon – “Flaring Trees”
      James D. Callahan – “Ethics”
      d.a. levy – “Pollock”
      Ronald Caplan – “From Forbes & Shady”
      Keith Davie – “Written after a Poetry Reading by M. Marcus”
      Lewis Turco – “Song”
      L.S. Torgoff – “To Catch a Thief”
      Judson Crews – “The Brain in the Weather”

5. THE SILVER CESSPOOL, Vol. 5, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964

First edition, side-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 16 pages, c.100 copies (including 14 special illustrated copies), letterpress printed by d.a. levy.
(Lowell B1, T&H P-37)

  • Contents:
    1. Will Inman – “from 108 Handles”
      Milton Phillips – “from Which Side of the Mirror”
      David Federman – [untitled] “No longer…”
      Dave Rasey – “At Times”
      Ted Berrigan – “Jumping from Pottawottamie (for Martin Cochran)”
      Adelaide Simon – “Nocturne”
      Kent Taylor – [untitled] “we watch sponges…”
      A. Greenshoot [Jim Lowell] – “Cleveland Greenery”
      Ariella – [untitled] “Who created you that you…”
      Kent Taylor – [book review of Hermes Past the Hour by Judson Crews]
      Rick Klein – [untitled] “i come to you…”