Fourteen issues of The Marrahwanna Quarterly were published by d.a. levy’s Renegade Press from 1964 to 1968. Cover art and illustrations were done by d.a. levy, Kent Taylor, Dagmar, T.L. Kryss, and others. Contributors included John Keys, Margaret Randall, Marvin Malone, Carl Larsen, George Montgomery, Judson Crews, Douglas Blazek, Steve Richmond, Charles Bukowski, d.a. levy, D.r. Wagner, Bill Wyatt, rjs, Russell Atkins, and many others.
1. THE MARRAHWANNA QUARTERLY, Vol. 1, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964
First edition, side-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 6.5″, 20 pages, 150 copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Illustrated with block prints by Celeste Simon (“Petrograd”), d.a.levy (“You Murderers with Your Indifference”), and Pat Crayton ([untitled]). (Lowell B2, T&H P-38)
- Contents:
- Russell Salamon – “V (after Pynchon)”
John Keys – “Prescott via Hudson”
d.a. levy – “Shipensburg”
Roberta E. Badger – “Please”
Margaret Randall – “The Broken Glass Begins to Whole Itself”
Marvin Malone – “The Professional”
Ann – “Fall”
Carl Larsen – “Clyde and Martha”
Carl Larsen – “Slumscapes: 4”
George Montgomery – “A Poem for Ray & Bonnie”
J. Cornillon – “Poem” (“Zoom. Zoom Zoom…”)
Dave Rasey – “Midwestern Manifesto”
Erik Kiviat – [untitled] “an organ fugue sways…”
Allen Katzman – “The Transgression”
George R. Beck – “Two Brothers”
Judson Crews – “Medical Science”
2. THE MARRAHWANNA QUARTERLY, No. 2, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, Winter 1964-5
First edition, side-stapled in printed wrappers, 6″ x 8.5″, 21 pages, 150 copies, letterpress and spirit duplicator printed by d.a. levy. Illustrated with untitled block prints by Katherine Wasil, cuz, and Kent Taylor. (Lowell B2, T&H P-42)
- Contents:
- Tuli Kupferberg – [untitled] “Here’s a toast to others…”
D. Blazek – [untitled] “folklore is in bed…”
R. Blossom – [untitled] “there is a…”
John Cornillon – “The Fellaheen Prick, to d.a. levy”
d.a. levy [disguised as (e)y(e)] – “Shit Poem for the Mysterious Annburghers”
Szabo – “Jerk Off Poem”
Marguerite Harris – “Metaphysic”
Kent Taylor – “Grandfather’s Speeches”
Steve Richmond – “Soft Rain”
D. Blazek – [untitled] “you know what it means…”
Steve Richmond – [untitled] “out of my…”
d.a. levy – “Satori while Praying in the Bathroom”
Marguerite Harris – [untitled] “the old, spoiled blooms…”
3. THE MARRAHWANNA QUARTERLY, No. 3, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965
First edition, side-stapled sheets in printed wrappers, 6.5″ x 8.5″, 20 pages, 200 copies, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Illustrations by Steve Ferguson. (Lowell B2, T&H P-55)
- Contents:
- Grace Butcher – [untitled] “Not to know yourself…”
Grace Butcher – [untitled] “Only ask without speaking…”
Russell Salamon – [untitled] “eloquent and obvious…”
W.E. Wyatt – “from Songs of the Four Seasons”
Jeff A. Cook – “To the Ugliest Man”
Joe Nickell – “Not”
George Bowering – “The Smile”
4. THE MARRAHWANNAH QUARTERLY, No. 4, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965
First edition, side-stapled in printed wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 44 pages, 200 copies, letterpress, mimeograph, and spirit duplicator printed by d.a. levy. (Lowell B2, T&H P-56)
- Contents:
- Charles Bukowski – “The Hell of It Is to Throw Away Rejected Poems That Seem to Say Something Anyhow Even If Perhaps Not Too Well—”
E.K.Albrecht – “Monday Morning Coffee Break”
E.K.Albrecht – “Haiku” (“Bright sky watches as…”)
Thom Szuter – [untitled] “the only…”
Thom Szuter – [untitled] “air water…”
Thom Szuter – [untitled] “walking in weeds…”
d.a. levy – “Fragments from the Notebooks of Bennet Hassink”
Gonzalo Arango – “Nadaist Manifesto”
Per H. Berrefjord – “About a God”
d.a. levy – “10 Reasons to Keep Marijuana Illegal” [editorial]
Freda Norton – [untitled] “In vacant rooms of green/gray…”
Freda Norton – “Consecrated”
Freda Norton – “Where has she Gone?”
Roger Sauls – “Three Poems from the Asylum”
Douglas Blazek – “Prose Poem on Why Shout?”
Douglas Blazek – “Mind if I Put it Straight for Once?”
Douglas Blazek – “A Giant ‘S’ and a Bolt of Lightning”
Art Rosh – [untitled] “here my face is full…”
Art Rosh – [untitled] “The black priests churning…”
Carol Paul – [untitled] “I went to the pot luck dinner…”
5. THE MARY JANE QUARTERLY, Vol. 2, No. 1, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1966
First edition, side-stapled in printed wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 52 pages, 200 copies, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. (Lowell B2, T&H P-83).
“This issue of the Marrahwannah Quarterly is dedicated to Guru Ronald Jump / imprisoned for poverty.”
- Contents:
- Kent Taylor – “May 6, 1965”
Diane Wakoski – “Discrepancies”
Robert Lowry – “The Midway Stop”
Sergio Mondragón – “Contacto de los Dedos”
Sergio Mondragón – “Riesgo”
Margaret Randall – “Preparation of the Audience”
Margaret Randall – “Retrato, for Juanita”
Joe “Ace” Walker – “Schizophrenia”
John Mongomery – “The Coloratura Note”
author unknown – “from the Kabbalah” (trans. S.L.M. Mathers)
Grace Butcher – “The Flats”
Grace Butcher – “Cave”
John Harriman – “from the Hashish Poems”
d.a.levy – [editorial]
Kay Wood – “Epitaph”
d.a. levy – “Fragments from the Notebooks of Bennet Hassink (Book 983)”
Carl Larsen – “Fractions of Light and Water, Fractions of Flesh”
George Montgomery – “Birthday Night Prayer”
d.a. levy – “Peyote Invocation”
6. THE MARIJUANA QUARTERLY, Vol. 2, No. 2, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1966
First edition, side-stapled sheets in printed cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 54 pages, 200 copies, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. (Lowell B2, T&H P-84)
“This issue is dedicated to John Sinclair,, recently introduced to the art of sodomy by the entire detroit police dept… The Tongue-in Lowecheeks Award goes to the Detroit Gestapo for harassment of poets below & beyond the call of duty…”
- Contents:
- Ray Bremser – “from Poems of Madness”
Allen Katzman – “from Poems from Oklahoma”
Rolla Rieder – “Genesis: A Surrealist Line Sequence”
Rolla Rieder – “For Gene Fowler”
D.r. Wagner – “Letter No. 16 from the Same Guy who Always Writes to Me because He Thinks I Am or Was His Friend”
Irene Schram – “E Train”
Irene Schram – “From under those Graveblocks”
d.a. levy – “Written on the ‘Day of the Kif Lion’” [editorial]
Richard Barker – “On our way to Mexico”
Irene Schram – “I Dream of Horses”
Bill Wyatt – “Thoughts of Han Shan”
Bill Wyatt – “Another Winter”
John Cornillon – [untitled] “Hard cold tar…”
d.a.levy – “Sitting on a Bench near T Square (for David Meltzer)”
Jacob Leed – “Through the Door”
rjs – [untitled] “children wake up…”
rjs – [untitled] “my friend says i shouldn’t…”
George Montgomery – “Upon Seeing Sonny and Cher”
Russell Atkins – “Front Page”
Richard Barker – “For Ken Kesey and Thirteen Companions”
D.r. Wagner – “The Old Up the River from New Orleans Bit Again”
John Cornillon – “Letter Written by a Poet to his Friend Who Is Being Arraigned on Charges of Possessing Marijuana for the First Time that was Never Mailed”
Irene Schramm – “Hold”
Barbara A. Holland – “The House of Ice”
Matt Shulman – [untitled] “I awaited his arrival…”
Allen Planz – “Poor White”
Kitty Estrella – [untitled] “I think of myself…”
Aurelia Ford – “Mabel Mockingpooch”
d.a. levy – “The Cleveland Scene” [editorial]
Russell Atkins – “Spyrytual”
7. THE MARIHUANA QUARTERLY, Vol. 2, No. 3, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1966
First edition, side-stapled in printed cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 56 pages, 200 copies, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. (Lowell B2, T&H P-85)
“This issue is dedicated to Big Leonard who recently discorporated & went to heaven… The Litany of Ra is dedicated to Adele’s Angels / The Egyptians (MC) & the pacifist segment of the Gooses & all the riders who attended ceremonies at Adele’s Euclid Ave. Temple (/Ride in Peace/) May the Eye of Horus & the Eye of Khepera be opened to you…”
- Contents:
- Mara – [untitled] “cow-lick…”
Kent and Joan Taylor – [untitled] “boohoo / blue blue…”
Thom Szuter – [untitled] “sun streak…”
d.a. levy – [untitled] “flying bull…”
The Albrechts – [untitled] “grow tesque / metro gnome…”
Joe Walker – [untitled] “blue mother…”
Carl Woideck- [untitled] “lick cow…”
Bill Bisset – [untitled] “th mystery of space deepens…”
Bill Bisset – [untitled] “suddenly it is late…”
Bill Bisset – [untitled] “i dont care for yur shit…”
E.R. Baxter – “Listen River”
David Sandberg – “Lance, the Cup is Heavy, Drop the Cup!”
David Sandberg – “Poem for the World’s only Blue Eyed Indian”
David Sandberg – “Carnival Poem”
Steve Ferguson – “Poem from Steve”
John Wherry – “2/6/66”
Donald Thomas – “A Poem Intitled for Alan D. with Love”
Alan Dimenstein – “I Got the Happiness Blues”
D.r. Wagner – “Man Caused by Viruses”
Sid Rufus – “Which?”
Walter Lowenfels – “A Passage from a Coming Book”
George Montgomery – “Involvement”
Alex Gildzen – “Summer Sunday in Kent”
Brother James – “Lines”
Lady Char – “Society”
W.E. Wyatt – “Poems from the ‘Hash’ Dynasty”
d.a. levy – “Rectal Eye Vision for Phil Ochs”
d.a. levy – “Lines for Lady Jane”
Don Thomas – “Pussy is more than a Dirty Word”
Edouard Naville – “The Litany of Ra”
8. THE MARIJUANA QUARTERLY, Vol. 2, No. 4, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1966
First edition, side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 60 pages, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Illustration by Dagmar.(Lowell B2, T&H P-86)
“This issue is dedicated to Lenny Bruce and Garner Ted Armstrong – Apostles of the post-bomb circus liberation front”
- Contents:
- rjs – “Dear Local Draft Board #32”
d.a. levy – [book review; The Three Pillars of Zen]
Allen Ginsberg – “A Glass of Ayahuasca”
D.r. Wagner – “Chapter CXLIV”
T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “after eight days…”
Roger Sauls – “Weed”
Tristan Corbiere – “Oh, That?”
Tristan Corbiere – “Guitar”
Tristan Corbiere – “To my Mouse-Colored Mare”
Milarepa – “from The Hundred Thousand Songs”
Rene Char – “from Leaves of Hypnos/A War Journal”
Junker Vromeer M.D. – The Stasher’s-Paranoia Syndrome” (trans. J.D. Kuch)
d.a. levy – “Editorial Note on Tarot, Palmistry and The Skull Mandala”
Carl Woideck – “You Don’t Know What Love Is”
C.J. Torrance – “Death Song of the Assassin”
David James – “2nd Poem to Lee”
Sigmond Raoul – “A Refraction of the Cosmic Lubrator Dedicated to Charlie Parker, the late Alto Saxaphonist”
Reb Barker – [untitled] “great lionhead…”
d.a. levy – “Additional Sections for The North American Book of the Dead”
Malcolm Hall – “Notes for a Future Suicide”
Dan Georgakas – [untitled] “The purest lay…”
T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “waiting for the bus…”
Don Thomas – [book reviews]
9. THE MARRAHWANNAH QUARTERLY, Vol. 3, No. 1, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1967
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated covers, 8.5″ x 11″, 24 pages, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. (Lowell B2, T&H P-125)
- Contents:
- Kent Taylor – “11/30/66”
d a levy – “The Brotherhood of Bhang” [editorial]
T.L. Kryss – “Absent Light”
David W. Harris – “Dog Howl for Mee”
d a levy – “Another Fragment from the Destroyed Journal”
Allen Ginsberg – “May 26, 1960”
Douglas Blazek – “A Primer on Open Skull Pressology”
Joel Marc Deutsch – “Eyes, for Kent Taylor”
Joel Marc Deutsch – “Eugene Jolas – “
Brown Miller – “Letter of Introduction”
Joel Marc Deutsch – “Just Checking”
Joel Marc Deutsch – [untitled] “This poem is for you…”
Joel Marc Deutsch – “Morning Song, 2 Yrs. Later”
Eugene Jolas – “Daemmerspuk”
Eugene Jolas – “I Interview Lenin”
Eugene Jolas – “Rimbaud and the Chauffeur”
Eugene Jolas – “Panopticon”
Eugene Jolas – “Astralia”
Eugene Jolas – “Incantations”
Eugene Jolas – “Hymn”
Eugene Jolas – “Mountainwords”
Brown Miller – “Death and Super-Death”
Eugene Jolas – “Psalm”
Eugene Jolas – “Vineyard in the Sun”
Dave Cunliffe – “Peace Therapy Workings”
T.L. Kryss – “To Charles Bukowski”
Kent Taylor – [book review]
Steve Ferguson – “Poem” (“Iowa is four hundred…”)
Bill Bisset – [letter]
10. THE KIF QUART-O or THE MAR*AHHHH-WANNNAH QUARTERLY, Vol. 3, No. 2, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1967
First edition, side-stapled in silkscreened cover, 8.5″ x 11″, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover silkscreen by T.L. Kryss. (Lowell B2, T&H P-126)
- Contents:
- author unknown – “In Defense of Smut and Poets”
d.a. levy – [untitled] “Sargent Burt Miller typical average…”
K.S. Friedman – “The Bad Rap Jazz Band”
d.a. levy – “Notes/ Variations on a Short Poem”
Kent Taylor – “Atro-City”
Kent Taylor – “A Call to Arms”
Kent Taylor – “Clear and Cold”
Kent Taylor – [untitled] “my cat caught her…”
Kent Taylor – “East to Cleveland”
Kent Taylor – [untitled] “if the radio collapses the sky…”
Kent Taylor – “I Feel Like Seven Days”
Kent Taylor – “9-4-66”
Kent Taylor – “Road Land”
Carl Woideck – “For Sandy”
Carl Woideck – “For Julie”
Dennis Mazer – [untitled] “In a grass bag…”
Marion Black – [untitled] “i remember christmas…”
Kevin McGown – “Shale”
George Dowden – [untitled] “today yellow sun…”
E.R. Baxter III – “Patch Lives!”
E.R. Baxter III – “For My Friend Who Was Almost Destroyed…”
David W. Harris – “Side 4 – BMI”
D.r. Wagner – [untitled] “animal rotting on the road…”
d.a. levy – [book reviews]
Daneen – “A Break in the Fast”
d.a. levy – “Egyptian Troll Sheet Number One”
Steve Richmond – “Struggle”
Vishwanath – “The Family”
author unknown – “The Mind”
John Smith – “Pot Letter”
11. THE MARRAHWANNAH QUARTERLY, Vol. 3, No. 3, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1967
First edition, side-stapled in hand-painted wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 200 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by Mara. Published as The Concrete Issue. (Lowell B2, T&H P-127)
“This issue dedicated to poet, publisher, martyr: r.j.s.”.
- Contents:
- bp nichol – “Statement”
d.a. levy – “Why Concrete?”
T.L. Kryss – “Monsoooooooooon”
T.L. Kryss – “I Wisht I Cd Play the Beautiful Instrument”
T.L. Kryss – “Paranoia”
d.a. levy – “Emergency City Ordinance”
Bud – [untitled] “He imaginatively apprehends…”
Julian Kallander – “Forgotten Things”
D.W. Harris – “Side 10 – New Syndrome”
D.W. Harris – “Liebestod”
Russell Atkins – “A Storm Shall Break”
bp nichol – [untitled] “did you ever…”
bp nichol – [untitled] “multilingual…”
Adam Kadmon – [untitled] “eye m struggling…”
E.S. Harmon – “A Lettre From”
Allen Ginsberg – [untitled] “censorship of language…”
Bill Bissett – “Sun”
Bill Bissett – [untitled] “my lady sd hold it…”
E.R. Baxter III – “Here on this Page”
E.R. Baxter III – [untitled] “green grass…”
E.R. Baxter III – [untitled] “spring is sprung…”
rjs – “Lines from a Lazy Concrete Poet”
Bob Cobbing – [untitled] “wan do tree”
J.D. Kuch – “Poem to Peter Orlovsky”
D.r. Wagner – “Phantom Beaver Finds Mate”
Ivo Vroom – [untitled] “wind…”
bp nichol – “Movie Bill: The Outrage”
bp nichol – “Homage to Edmund Bergler”
D.r. Wagner – “Shaking it up with Will”
D.r. Wagner – “Let’s All Sing like The Birdies Sing”
d.a. levy – “Solar Swastika”
d.a. levy – “Visualized Prayer for the American God #6”
Mara – [untitled] “saule…”
T.L. Kryss – “Bert Miller does not like…”
12. THE MARRAHWANNAH QUARTERLY, Vol. 3, No. 4, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1967
First edition, side-stapled in silkscreen cover, 8.5″ x 11″, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover silkscreen by T.L. Kryss. (Lowell B2, T&H P-128)
“This issue is dedicated to Trans-Love Energies (Detroit) and the Buddhists of Collinwood”
- Contents:
- Amy Picciano – [untitled] “One came out from a corner…”
T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “like a nugget of gold…”
T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “brothers and sisters…”
T.L. Kryss – “Hemmorhage”
T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “thirteen tricks…”
T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “face run…”
T.L. Kryss – Concrete Poem for Jane Mansfield”
T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “the hand…”
T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “the truth about circles…”
T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “the strange case of…”
T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “noah spent building the tribes…”
d.a. levy – “Comments on the Acid Scene”
d.a. levy – “Psychedelic Information Center”
d.a. levy – “Comment on the Acid Landscape”
d.a. levy – “Tantric Strobe”
Al Bell – “Ing”
Al Bell – [untitled] “as we walk…”
George Dowden – “Landscape: 16”
S.M. Kane – [untitled] “the fire blazes…”
Gene Bloom – “Paranoia”
13. THE MARRAHWANNAH QUARTERLY, Vol. 4, No. 1, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, Winter 1967-1968
First edition, side-stapled in printed wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. (Lowell B2, T&H P-162)
- Contents:
- T.L.Kryss – [untitled] “when you go to san francisco…”
T.L.Kryss – [untitled] “moon…”
T.L.Kryss – [untitled] “winter rain and purple rainbow…”
Rolla Rieder – “Credibility Gaposis”
Rolla Rieder – “Please Do Not Throw Foreign Articles”
Rolla Rieder – “Come-On”
Rolla Rieder – “Illusion”
W.Y. Evans-Wentz – “The Yoga Philosophy”
George Montgomery – [untitled] “trip some where…”
Leon Spiro – [letter]
Li Po – [untitled] “You ask me…”
rjs – [untitled] “well you know its not…”
rjs – [untitled] “yr eyes r a necessari…”
rjs – [untitled] “how mani desires…”
rjs – [untitled] “things as they are…”
d.a. Levy – “Tantric Strobe”
W.Y. Evans-Wentz – “Forms of Yoga”
Jiri Valoch – “Two Interlinguistic Poems”
14. THE MARRAHWANNAH QUARTERLY, Vol. 4, No. 2, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1967-1968
First edition, side-stapled in printed and hand-painted wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 200 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by Toni Thomas and Sandy-Jo Hickle. (Lowell B2, T&H P-163)
- Contents:
- Don Thomas – “Grandfather Poems”
Don Thomas – “Notes from the Gutter”
Don Thomas – “M 13”
Don Thomas – “2 Above, 3 Below”
Don Thomas – “Homage to Issa”
Don Thomas – “The Balloon Lady”
Don Thomas – “A Subway Named Mobius”
Don Thomas – “The Next to the Last Flight”
Don Thomas – “Dead Man’s Hand”
E.R. Baxter III – “All that is Hard is not Concrete”
E.R. Baxter III – “On the Difficulty of Determining”
E.R. Baxter III – “A Semi-Concretual Christian Fish Story”
E.R. Baxter III – “Fire & Brimstone”
E.R. Baxter III – [untitled] “two crows fly…”
bjt – “Two Poems & A Statement on Concrete Poetry”
bjt – “The Naked Body I Luv”
rjs – “Classified Adverseticement for the Local Industri”
rjs – [untitled] “walk red green red green”
d.a. Levy – [book reviews]
n.p.: privately printed, February 1964
London: Writers Forum, February 1966
London: Writers Forum, December 1966
n.p.: self published, 1967
London: Writers Forum, September 1968
London: Writers Forum, September 1968
London: Aloes Books, 1972
Bradford: Jack Press, January 1975
Bradford: Jack Press, 1975
