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Section F: Compilations and Reprints
This index includes collections of previously published and reprinted work


1. levy, d.a. TO BE A DISCREPANCY IN CLEVELAND
levy_discrepancyFirst edition, thus:
Cambridge: Radical America, n.d. [c.1970]
Saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers 5.25″ x 8.5″, 46 pages. (not in T&H)

Reprints material from D.A. Levy: A Tribute to the Man (Cleveland: Ghost Press, 1968), Poems (Madison: Quixote Press, 1968), The Madison Poems (Madison: Quixote Press, 1969).

2. levy, d.a. PRIVATE NO PARKING
levy_privateFirst edition, thus:
Madison: RPM Printing, 1972
Saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 52 pages, 1000 copies, offset printed. (T&H C-02)

Reprints material from The Madison Poems (Madison: Quixote Press, 1969).

Note: From Morris Edelson’s introduction: “levy… was invited in 1968 by Quixote to spend some time in Madison. he came, slept at Grace and Dave Wagner’s, visited some Freshman English classes and Comparative Literature Department meetings, gave a non-reading, and taught/didn’t teach a class: it was a Free University class in telepathy, d.a. never went but the class met anyway, thinking he was trying to tell them something. he was.”

4. levy, d.a. CONCRETE
First edition, thus:
Madison: Brainwave Press, 1974
Saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 4″ x 5.25″, 24 pages, offset printed. Published as Brainsuck, Vol. 2, No. 2. (T&H C-03)

Reprints material from The Madison Poems (Madison: Quixote Press, 1969).

5. levy, d.a. TOMBSTONE AS A LONELY CHARM (PARTS I, II, & III) 
First edition, thus:
Cleveland: Falling Down Press, May 1975
Side-stapled and bound in illustrated wrappers, 5.75″ x 9″,  28 pages, 100 copies, silkscreen and mimeograph printed. Cover art by Michael Schaefer. (not in T&H)

Collects the three separately published parts of Tombstone as a Lonely Charm (Sacramento: Runcible Spoon, 1967 and 1968).

6. levy, d.a. BARKING RABBIT
First edition, thus:
Cleveland: Falling Down Press, March 1976
Side-stapled in silk-screened cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 26 pages, 200 copies. Cover silkscreen by T.L. Kryss, illustration by M. Schaefer. (T&H C-04)

Reprints material from The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle (Cleveland), NOLA Express (New Orleans), Campfires of the Resistance (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971), Unmuzzled Ox (New York), and The Box Lunch Travel-og of Fremont Gulch (Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1967).

7. levy, d.a. COLLECTED POEMS
First edition, thus:
Ephraim: Druid Books, 1976
Perfect-bound in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 232 pages, offset printed. (T&H CO-05)

Reprints material from Songs for Dead Children (San Francisco: Black Rabbit Press, 1969), Tombstone as a Lonely Charm (Sacramento: Runcible Spoon, 1967 and 1968), Suburban Monastery Death Poem (Cleveland: Zero Edition, 1968), Cleveland Undercovers (Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966), Prose: On Poetry in the Wholesale Education & Culture System (Milwaukee: Gunrunner Press, 1968), Madison Poems (Madison: Quixote Press, 1969), North American Book of the Dead (Cleveland: The Free Lance Press, 1965), and more.

8. levy, d.a. RED CAT OF REASON (BARKING TOO) 
First edition, thus:
Cleveland: Falling Down Press, April 1976
Top-stapled and bound in silk-screened wrappers, 7″ x 13.25″, 26 pages, 120 copies, silkscreen and mimeograph printed. (T&H C-06)

Reprints material from The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle (Cleveland), Poems (Madison: Quixote Press, 1968), For Stan Heliburn Who Fled from Freedom (Cleveland: Absolute Zero Press, 1968), Quixote (Madison), For John R. Scott Who Painted Flowers (Cleveland: Ghost Press, March 1968), Graffiti (Cleveland), Red Lady (Cleveland: Para-Shakti Press, November 1969), The Madison Poems (Madison: Quixote Press, 1969).

9. levy, d.a. THE PRAPS SERIES
First edition, thus:
n.p.: Mostly Broken Scabs Press, 1977
Side-stapled and bound in silk-screened wrappers, 8.5″ x 12″, 28 pages, 125 copies. (not in T&H)

Reprints material from D.A. Levy: A Tribute to the Man (Cleveland: Ghost Press, 1968).

10. levy, d.a. FRAGMENTS OF A SHATTERED MIRROR
First edition, thus:
Vancouver: Kirpan Press, 1999
Side-stapled in silk-screened cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 94 pages, 65 numbered copies. Cover art by Dave Pishnery. This is book one of the first set in the Random Sightings series of d.a. levy reprints by Kirpan Press. (T&H C-09)

Reprints material from Fragments of a Shattered Mirror (Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1963), The Free Lance (Cleveland), The Fenn Literary Omnibus (Cleveland), and CLEVELAND POEMS, CHICAGO POEMS & OTHER SHIT by T.L. Kryss (Cleveland: Free Love Press, 1967).

11. levy, d.a. VARIATIONS ON FLIP
First edition, thus:
Vancouver: Kirpan Press, 1999
Side-stapled in silk-screened cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 86 pages, 65 numbered copies. Cover art by Mike Schaefer. This is book two of the first set in the Random Sightings series of d.a. levy reprints by Kirpan Press. (T&H C-10)

Reprints material from Variations on Flip (Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1963), The Box Lunch Travel-og of Fremont Gulch (Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1967), A Marijuana Ready-Made, Hapy Hiroshima Day (Cleveland: n.p., 1966), Postcard (Toronto: Ganglia Press, 1969).

12. levy, d.a. MORE WITHDRAWED OR LESS
First edition, thus:
Vancouver: Kirpan Press, 1999
Side-stapled and bound in hand-painted wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 94 pages, 63 numbered copies. Cover art by Richard Werner. This is book three of the first set in the Random Sightings series of d.a. levy reprints by Kirpan Press. (T&H C-11)

Reprints material from More Withdrawed or Less (Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1963), and drawings from Adelaide Simon’s book Permit Me Voyage (Cleveland: Free Lance Press, 1964)

13. levy, d.a. RANDOM SIGHTINGS
First edition, thus:
Vancouver: Kirpan Press, 1999
Side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 94 pages, 65 numbered copies. Cover art by Alan Horvath. This is book four of the first set in the Random Sightings series of d.a. levy reprints by Kirpan Press. (T&H C-12)

Reprints material from Poems (Cleveland: Find-us-if-you-can Press, 1967), The Silver Cesspool (Cleveland), The Mary Jane Quarterly (Cleveland), The Free Lance (Cleveland), 306, An Anthology of Cleveland Poets (Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1967), 5 Cleveland Prints (Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964), 3 ONE ACT PLAYS (Torrance: Hors Commerce Press, 1964).

14. levy, d.a. (MORE) RANDOM SIGHTINGS
First edition, thus:
Vancouver: Kirpan Press, 1999
Side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 82 pages, 65 numbered copies. Cover art by Alan Horvath, photo by r.j.s. This is book one of the second set in the Random Sightings series of d.a. levy reprints by Kirpan Press. (T&H C-13)

Reprints material from Cleveland Concrete (Cleveland: Free Love Press, 1966), Marrahwannah Quarterly (Cleveland), The Cleveland Press (Cleveland), Plastic Saxophone found in an Egyptian Tomb (Cleveland: n.p., 1966).

15. levy, d.a. (DEFINITELY) RANDOM SIGHTINGS
First edition, thus:
Vancouver: Kirpan Press, 1999
Side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 88 pages, 65 numbered copies. Cover art by Alan Horvath. This is book two of the second set in the Random Sightings series of d.a. levy reprints by Kirpan Press. (T&H C-14)

Reprints material from Ankara (Cleveland: n.p., August 1963), The Silver Cesspool (Cleveland), King Lord / Queen Freak (Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964) by Ed Sanders, Parent[heitcal Pop]pies (Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964) by Russell Salamon, North American Book of the Dead (Cleveland: The Free Lance Press, 1965), Permit Me Voyage (Cleveland: Free Lance Press, 1964) by Adelaide Simon, 6 Cleveland Prints, Vol. 2 (Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964), Poems of Jacob Leed (Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966), Selected Poems of Kent Taylor (Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1963), Down, Off & Out (Bensenville: Mimeo Press, 1965) by William Wantling, Paideumic Dreams / Miracles & Ecstasies (Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966) by Roger Sauls, Cleveland Poems, Chicago Poems & Other Shit (Cleveland: Free Love Press, 1967) by T.L. Kryss, The Gun Child (Sacramento: Grande Ronde Press, 1968) by Roger Sauls
Emily Dickenson: Letters from the World (NY: Corinth Books, 1970),
The Cement Fuck (Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1966)

16. levy, d.a. (SCHEDULED) RANDOM SIGHTINGS
First edition, thus:
Vancouver: Kirpan Press, 1999
Side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 80 pages, 65 numbered copies. Cover art by Alan Horvath. This is book three of the second set in the Random Sightings series of d.a. levy reprints by Kirpan Press. (T&H C-15)

Reprints correspondence with Peter Salmansohn, Richard Allen Morris, Robert Kelly, D.r. Wagner, Betty and Morris Edelson; reprints material from Marrahwannah Quarterly (Cleveland), The Free Love Periodically (Cleveland), Quixote (Madison), The Mary Jane Papers (Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966) by George Montgomery, Cleveland Undercovers (Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966), and White Light (Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966).

17. levy, d.a. (INVISIBLE) RANDOM SIGHTINGS
First edition, thus:
Vancouver: Kirpan Press, 1999
Side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 82 pages, 65 numbered copies. Cover art by Alan Horvath. This is book four of the second set in the Random Sightings series of d.a. levy reprints by Kirpan Press. (T&H C-16)

Reprints correspondence with Ian Hamilton Finlay; reprints material from The Serif (Kent), Marijuana Newsletter (Cleveland), The Day is a Prayer They Can’t Understand (Cleveland: 7 FlowersPress, 1967) by D.r. Wagner, Cleveland Undercovers (Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966), All Gods Must Learn to Kill (Demarest, NJ: Analecta Press, 1968) by Douglas Blazek, Farewell the Floating Cunt (Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964).

18. levy, d.a. and D.r. Wagner. RANDOM SIGHTINGS (THE EGYPTIAN STROBOSCOPE SESSIONS)
First edition, thus:
Vancouver: Kirpan Press, 1999
Side-stapled and bound in silk-screened wrappers, 8.5″ x 14″, 96 pages, 65 numbered copies. Cover art by Alan Horvath. This is book five of the second set in the Random Sightings series of d.a. levy reprints by Kirpan Press. (T&H C-17)

From Alan Horvath’s title-page notes: “The following is the 3rd printing of the Egyptian Stroboscope which was originally printed in 1966 in an edition of 108 copies by 7 flowers press. As stated on the title page of the 2nd printing of 100 copies by grass coin publishing company in 1967, ‘this was one of the publications seized by the cleveland police in the dec. 1966 blitz-bomb.’ The 2nd printing had a different cover, a modified title page and did not contain the index section. What is presented here is a reproduction of the original, the unique pages from the second edition as well as the original manuscript pages.”

Reprints material from both editions of The Egyptian Stroboscope (Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966) and (Cleveland: Grass Coin Publishing Company, 1967).

19. levy, d.a. RANDOM SIGHTINGS (D.A. HAS LEFT THE BUILDING)
First edition, thus:
Vancouver: Kirpan Press, 1999
Side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 92 pages, 65 numbered copies. Cover art by Alan Horvath. This is book six of the second set in the Random Sightings series of d.a. levy reprints by Kirpan Press. (T&H C-18)

Reprints material from Cleveland Manifesto of Poetry (Cleveland: The Asphodel Bookshop, 1964), More Withdrawed or Less (Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1963), Input (Valley Stream, NY), TooBe (Cleveland?), and manuscripts for “Beret” [published in D.A. Levy: A Tribute to the Man (Cleveland: Ghost Press, 1968)] , “Brotherhood of Bhang” [published in Marrahwannah Quarterly, Vol. 3, No.1 (Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1967)], Kibbutz in the Sky – Book 2 (Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1967), “A Dream of the Dream-Trial Inquisition” [published in D.A. Levy: A Tribute to the Man (Cleveland: Ghost Press, 1968)], “Red Lady” [published in The Beginning of Sunny Dawn & Red Lady (San Francisco: Open Skull Press, 1969)].

20. levy, d.a. (UH.. ONE & UH.. TWO) RANDOM SIGHTINGS
First edition, thus:
Vancouver: Kirpan Press, 2001
Side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 74 pages, 79 numbered copies. Cover art by Alan Horvath. This is book one of the third set in the Random Sightings series of d.a. levy reprints by Kirpan Press. (T&H C-19)

Reprints material from Book 14T (Cleveland: Swamp Erie Mimeographics Co., 1966), The Para-Concrete Manifesto (Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966), Untitled [made up of images from 6 Cleveland Prints (Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964)], The Egyptian Prayer Wheel (1966).

21. levy, d.a. (COMPLETELY COVERED) RANDOM SIGHTINGS [THE CLEVELAND UNDERCOVERS SESSIONS]
First edition, thus:
Vancouver: Kirpan Press, 2001
Comb-bound in illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 172 pages, 70 numbered copies. Cover art by Dave Pishnery. This is book two of the third set in the Random Sightings series of d.a. levy reprints by Kirpan Press. (T&H C-20)

From Alan Horvath’s colophon notes: “These nine unpublished drafts of Cleveland Undercovers trace the poem’s progression from its single sheet origin to a 16-page manuscript containing sections which were later removed. None of the early versions contained the Introduction which only appeared with the published poem.

Reprints material from Cleveland Undercovers (Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966).

22. levy, d.a. and Kent Taylor. ADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE (RANDOM SIGHTINGS)
First edition, thus:
Vancouver: Kirpan Press, 2003
Side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 68 pages, 100 numbered copies. Cover art by Alan Horvath. This is book three of the third set in the Random Sightings series of d.a. levy reprints by Kirpan Press. Includes CD recording of d.a. levy and Kent Taylor reading in 1967. (T&H C-22)

Reprints material from Kibbutz in the Sky – Book 1 (Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1967), Kibbutz in the Sky – Book 2 (Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1967), The North American Book of the Dead (Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966), The Rectal Eye Visions (Niagara Falls: press : today : niagara, 1966), D.A. Levy: A Tribute to the Man (Cleveland: Ghost Press, 1968).

23. levy, d.a. RANDOM SIGHTINGS (WITH NO ONE AROUND)
First edition, thus:
Vancouver: Kirpan Press, 2007
Comb-bound in illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 176 pages, 79 numbered copies. Cover art by Alan Horvath. This is book one of the fourth set in the Random Sightings series of d.a. levy reprints by Kirpan Press. (T&H C-26)

Reprints handwritten and typed correspondence from levy (1963-1968); recipients include Russell Salamon, Lewis Turco, Will Inman, Ed Sanders, Kirby Congdon, Tom Kryss, Allen Katzman, D.r. Wagner, Ingrid Swanberg, Robert Aitken, Jim Sorcic, John Scott.

24. levy, d.a. (TAYLOR-MADE) RANDOM SIGHTINGS [1962-1964]
First edition, thus:
Vancouver: Kirpan Press, 2007
Comb-bound in illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 164 pages, 68 numbered copies. Cover art by Kent Taylor. This is book two of the fourth set in the Random Sightings series of d.a. levy reprints by Kirpan Press. (T&H C-27)

Reprints unpublished drawings and paintings from levy’s early period (1962-1964) from the collection of Kent Taylor; also reprints poems and drawings from the same period that appeared in American Weave (Cleveland), The Wormwood Review (Storrs), Freethought! (Sacramento), Moonstones (Sacramento), Trace (London), Kauri (New York City), Abraxas (Madison), Input (New York City), Fortuitons Mutherfucer (Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965).

24. levy, d.a. (NOT SO) RANDOM SIGHTINGS [1965-1966]
First edition, thus:
Vancouver: Kirpan Press, 2007
Comb-bound in illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 188 pages, 74 numbered copies. Cover art by Alan Horvath. This is book three of the fourth set in the Random Sightings series of d.a. levy reprints by Kirpan Press. (T&H C-28)

This compilation focuses on levy’s middle period (1965-1966). Reprints unpublished drawings and paintings, and material published in Moonstones (Sacramento), Freethought! (Sacramento), University of Tampa Poetry Review (Tampa), Kauri (New York), Head (Staatsburg), Input (New York), Gooseberry (Cleveland), The Outsider (New Orleans), Polluted Lake Series (Cleveland), Marrahwanna Quarterly (Cleveland), Blitz (La Grande), Sum (Cleveland), Ganglia (Toronto), Poets at the Gate (Cleveland), Tlaloc (Leeds), Free Love Periodically (Cleveland), Do-It! (Cleveland), Hika (Gambier), Spanish Fleye (Toronto), Intrepid (New York), Small Press Review (El Cerrito).

25. levy, d.a. (SPONTANEOUS) RANDOM SIGHTINGS [1967]
First edition, thus:
Vancouver: Kirpan Press, 2007
Comb-bound in illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 212 pages, 74 numbered copies. Cover art by Karl Young. This is book four of the fourth set in the Random Sightings series of d.a. levy reprints by Kirpan Press. (T&H C-29)

This compilation focuses on levy’s turbulent year of 1967. Reprints unpublished manuscripts, collage, and material published in Poets at The Gate (Cleveland), The Marrahwannah Quarterly (Cleveland), Entrails (New York), The Buddhist 3rd Class Junkmail Oracle (Cleveland), Gronk (Toronto), Ole (Bensenville), Dust (Paradise), Poetry Survival Fund (Cleveland: Grass Coin Publishing, 1967), Forever Worship The Second Coming (San Francisco: Black Rabbit Press, 1968), Free Love Periodically (Cleveland), 18th Dynasty Egyptian Automobile Turnon (Pasadena: Poetry Est. 1966, 1967) by D.r. Wagner, Congress (New York), The Hermetic Press (Nottingham), Scarab Poems (London: Writers Forum, 1968), The Free Lance (Cleveland).

Do-It

1. DO-IT!, No. 1, edited by Matt Shulman
mags_doit1
Omaha: Do-It, 1966

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 16 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Cover art by d.a. levy.

  • Contents:
    1. d.a. levy – “The Suburban Prophets”
      Matt Shulman – “1966 #8”
      Matt Shulman – “1966 #12”
      Allen Ginsberg – “Auto Poesy to Nebraska”
      D.r. Wagner – “from The Septic Kaddish”
      Randy Rhody – “Destination”
      d.a. levy – “Light on, The Old Test (for Charles Olson)”
      John Giorno – “from American Book of the Dead”
      Freda Norton – “They Slaughtered Heaven to Death”
      Randy Rhody – “Dedicated to Darlene”
      Matt Shulman – “1966 #5”
      Clarence Major – “Vietnam #6”
      Clarence Major – “She, America & Death”
      Matt Shulman – “1966 #2”
      Matt Shulman – “1966 #10”
      Hugh Grayson – [untitled] “She bristled all up and said…”
      d.a. levy – “The Ballad of No Berets”

2. DO-IT!, Vol. 1, No. 2, edited by Matt Shulman
mags_doit2
Omaha: Do-It, August 1966

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 15 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed with some offset printed inserts. Published as a “Viet Nam Workbook”.

  • Contents:
    1. Clarence Major – “Viet Nam #3”
      Paul Mariah – “Klyptic Seventy-One”
      J.T. Hartmann – [untitled] “I’m an American, I am!”
      Paul Mariah – “Carnal Knowledge”
      d.a. levy – “A Mantra to Protect One from the Viet Cong (North and South)”
      Students for a Democratic Society – [offset printed insert] “National Vietnam Examination”
      W.E. Wyatt – “The Martyr”
      Robert Lowry – “Today is Dying”
      Clarence Major – “Vietnam #4”
      John Giorno – “from American Eagle”
      d.a. levy – “A Non of Viet Nam Gothic for the Alamo”
      r.j. sigmund – [letter] “Dear local draft board No. 32”
      Clarence Major – “Vietnam #2”
      Clarence Major – “Vietnam #5”

3. DO-IT!, Vol. 1, No. 3, edited by Matt Shulman
Omaha: Do-It, January 1967

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 35 leaves printed recto only, spirit-duplicator printed. Published “thru the facilities of Free Love Press”

  • Contents:
    1. Don Thomas – “The Unforgiven”
      Don Richie – “Letter from a Visitor to Greece”
      Rainer Maria Rilke – “Letter to a Young Poet”
      Dennis Saint-Eden –  “Rosary for Lovers”
      David R. Bunch – “Address”
      Peter Wild – “Santa Cruz”
      Matthew Shulman – “1966 #14”
      Matthew Shulman – “1966 #11”
      IBM Computer – [untitled] “Wild red dreams hovered…”
      Ottone M. Riccio – “Office of the Commissioner of Segregation”
      Duane Locke – “Another Image Series: Nos. 9 & 10”
      Ronald Davis – “The Cuzle and the Lokebub”
      Christine E. Fisher – “5 1/2 Years”
      Kell D. Robertson, Jr. – “Go Ahead”
      Matt Shulman – “1966 #13”
      d.a. levy – “Great Man Sleeping in a Closet”
      Harland Ristau – “End of the Line”
      William A. Mathewson – “Two Poets Trying”
      Seamus Finn – “Suck”
      W.E. Wyatt – “On Avalokita’s Enlightenment”
      Edward Oster – “The Hurricane”
      Samuel David Klein – “Ode to Summer”
      Terry T. Tilford – “2nd Poem for Ho Chi Minh”
      D.r. Wagner – [letter to the editor]
      J.T. Hartman – “Tone Poem”
      Raquel Jodorowsky – Johnny Gin”
      Reva Basch – [illustration]
      Randy Rhody – “Sparkling”
      H.B. Kaplan – “Coup D’Etat”
      Albert Drake – “In Dubious Battle”
      Will Inman – “Root of the Rebel Tree”

Shit Sheet

1. SHIT SHEET, No. 1, edited by d.a. levy *
First edition:
Cleveland: The University Fringe Anti-Christian Movement – Cleveland Branch, 1966
Side-stapled sheets, 8.5″ x 11″, 6 pages, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-122)

2. SHIT SHEET, No. 2, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: The Militant Pseudo-Buddhist Council of America, 1966

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 4 pages, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-123)

Contents:
Richard Krech – [untitled] “Galactus sat hurling thunderbolts…”
Boris de Rachewiltz – “Yoruba Legend from Black Eros”
unattributed – “England Debates Problems of Sex”
George Montgomery – “Picture of a Woman I Love”

Poets at the Gate

The Gate was a coffeehouse located in the basement of Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland, Ohio. Poems in the first issue were gathered from the first reading in the series which occurred on March 25, 1966. Poems in the third issue were gathered from the second reading in the series which occurred on April 29, 1966. The featured reader was Kent Taylor, and The Jug Band performed. The fourth issue includes poems gathered at the third reading in the series which occurred on July 1, 1966. Featured readers were D.r. Wagner, Joe Walker and rjs. rjs continued publishing poetry from this reading series with Free Love Periodically volumes 1 and 2.


1. POETS AT THE GATE , Vol. 1, No. 1, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: d.a. levy, March 1966
First edition, corner-stapled, 8.5” x 11″, 10 leaves printed recto only, spirit duplicator printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-79)

“…the editors of Weed, Free Lance, The Beginning, American Weave, and The Marrahwannah Quarterly were present… in all 25 poets read to an audience of approx. 100…”

  • Contents:
    1. John Cornillon – “from No Hiding Place”
      Kent Taylor – [untitled] “my poems are…”
    2. Kent Taylor – [untitled] “tonight some people…”
      Adelaide Simon – “Museum Tour – Piazzetta”
      Grace Butcher – [untitled] “Touched by the shadows…”
      d.a. levy – “from The North American Book of the Dead”
      Joe Walker – “Lake Street Bridge”
      John R. Wherry – “3/5/66”
      Geoffrey A. Cook – “Om Sound”
      Eric K. Albrecht – [untitled] “sometimes i think…”
      Norman Jordan – “Toms”
      E. Hale Chatfield – “In The Navy Yard”
      r.j.s. – “In Co-operation with d.a. levy’s 30 Day War”
      Thom Szuter – “Lost Barn”
      Walter R. Keller – “Christmas in Cleveland”

2. POETS AT THE GATE, Vol. 1, No. 2, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: d.a. levy, April 1966First edition, corner-stapled, 8.5″ x 11″, 11 leaves printed recto only, spirit duplicator printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-80)

  • Contents:
    1. Joe Walker – “1966: First Poem”
      Bennet Hassink – “from The Notebooks of Bennet Hassink”
      J.T. Hartmann – [untitled] “I’m an American…”
      Kent Taylor – [untitled] “pieces of me…”
      d.a. levy – “from Cleveland The Rectal Eye Visions”
      d.a. levy – “from The Book of the Dead”
      W.E. Wyatt – “from A Marriage of Words”
      Roger Sauls -“Chikhai Bardo”
      Margaret Randall – “from Unside”
      Thom Szuter – “The Fall Sky”

3. POETS AT THE GATE, Vol. 1, No. 3, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: d.a. levy, April 1966
First edition, side-stapled, 8.5″ x 11″, 13 leaves printed recto only, spirit duplicator printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-81)

  • Contents:
    1. E.R. Baxter – “A Son”
      D.r. Wagner – “Holy Man Eating”
      D.r. Wagner – “Letter from the Embalmer”
    2. Tod Roy – “from The Dope Stream Meaning Breathlessness”
      Richard Barker – “Jon Paul Says”
      d.a. levy – [untitled] “it looks like an amphetamine rain…”
      Eric Albrecht – “American Haiku”
      R. Crumb – [comic strip] “Cheesis K. Reist in the Detroit Avenue Story”

4. POETS AT THE GATE, Vol. 1, No. 4, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Free Love Press, July 1966
First edition, side-stapled, 8.5″ x 11″, 11 leaves printed recto only, spirit duplicator printed. (T&H P-92)

“On July 1st, 1966, 24 poets disguised as angels came up from hell to visit Cleveland…”

  • Contents:
    1. Kent Taylor – “A Call to Arms”
      D.r. Wagner – “For Barb”
      D.r. Wagner – “Portrait of the Dust Man”
      Randy Rhody – “Orphans”
      E.R. Baxter – “All Returns are not Glorios”
      d.a. levy – “R.E. Vision #7 Part II for Art Kleps”
      J.T. Hartmann – “Viet Diet”
      r.j.s. – “Dogs of Tex Ass”
      Mike Nelson – “Climb”
      Joel Friedman – “A. Dream”
      Dagmar – “The Adventures of Super Gorge”
      J.T. Hartmann – [untitled] “stop and kill and lose…”

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…”

The Eight Pager

1. THE EIGHT PAGER, Series 1, Part 1, edited by D.r. Wagner
Niagara Falls: press : today : niagara, 1966
First edition, top-stapled, 8.5” x 11”, 12 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed.

“this publication is not to be taken internally except as an aphrodisiac”

  • Contents:
    1. D.r. Wagner – “Orange Satori II”
      rjs – [untitled] “so you know a girl…”
      rjs – [untitled] “snake-eyes always jumps tomorrow…”
      d.a. levy – “Segment from a Destroyed Journal”
      d.a. levy – “from The North American Book of the Dead”
      Dave Rasey – “T.V. Western”
      d.a. levy – “from Hate Rays Cleveland”
      E.R. Baxter – [letter]
      D.r. Wagner – “Orange Satori III”
      D.r. Wagner – [book reviews]

2. THE EIGHT PAGER, Series 1, Part 2, edited by D.r. Wagner
Niagara Falls: press : today : niagara, 1966
First edition, top-stapled, 8.5” x 11”, 11 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed.

“this publication may be chopped up burned cooked on a spoon and mainlined and is recommended as a real aphrodisiac”

  • Contents:
    1. John Montgomery – “Parable”
      John Montgomery – “Bang”
      Kent Taylor – [untitled] “memories crushing my eyes…”
      Kent Taylor – “January 10, 1966”
      Kent Taylor – “Feb. 10, 1966”
      Doug Blazek – “The Atoms in My Life”
      Doug Blazek – “Birth”
      Antonin Artaud – [untitled] “Masterpieces of the past…”
      Doug Blazek – “Snow Fever”
      Tuli Kupferberg – [untitled] “I sit by the window early…”

3. THE EIGHT PAGER, Series 1, Part 3, edited by D.r. Wagner
Niagara Falls: press : today : niagara, 1966
First edition, top-stapled, 8.5” x 11”, 13 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed.

“this publication is excellent mixed with gin and tonic and is an excellent aphrodisiac”

  • Contents:
    1. Margaret Randall – “The Called Shots”
      Margaret Randall – “The Strike”
      Charles Bukowski – “The Stupid Are Best At The Cruelties:”
      Charles Bukowski – “The Sex-Obsessed Ladies Walking By Me After Work”
      Charles Bukowski – [untitled] “the way to stay alive…”
      Gene Fowler – “Glimpses of a Cold Night”
      Gene Fowler – “The Descent”
      Grace Butcher – “Trip”
      Grace Butcher – “Excerpt from a Letter”
      D.r. Wagner – [book reviews]
      author unknown – “A Special Note on Richmond and his Poetry”

4. THE EIGHT PAGER, Series 1, Part 4, edited by D.r. Wagner
Niagara Falls: press : today : niagara, 1966
First edition, top-stapled, 8.5” x 11”, 12 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed.

“by this time I’d bet you expected this space to say something about how ‘8’ is an aphrodisiac”

  • Contents:
    1. Erik Kiviat – “Treaty”
      Erik Kiviat – “Letter to Marcia”
      Carl Larsen – “Telethong”
      Walter Lowenfels – “Motherfucker Time”
      Russell Salamon – [untitled] “she is out of the seashell…”
      Sid Rufus – “The Homo Sapien Waltz”
      Jacob Leed – “Version Z”
      Sid Rufus – “Hobby Utmostess”
      Mel Buffington – “Musicman”
      Mel Buffington – “Decapitation”
      Douglas Blazek – “Earth”
      Kenneth Patchen – “from See You in the Morning”
      Steve Richmond – “A Selection of Poems”
      Steve Richmond – “My Cock”
      E.R. Baxter – “A Public Service Announcement”
      D.r. Wagner – [book reviews]

Free Love Periodically

1. FREE LOVE PERIODICALLY, No. 1, edited by RJS
Cleveland: Free Love Press, 1966

First edition, side-stapled in printed cover, 8.5” x 11”, 26 leaves printed recto only, spirit-duplicator printed.

“featuring the poets who read at the fourth open poetry reading at the Gate in Cleveland”

  • Contents:
    1. rjs – “Poets at the Gate” [editorial]
      Don Thomas – “The Awakening”
      rjs – “Anti-Gestapo Games” [editorial]
      rjs – “Anti-Gestapo Poem”
      Frank Osinski – “A Joke”
      Grace Butcher – “East ‘o the Sun and West ‘o Kleve Land”
      T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “the Old Hungarian says…”
      T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “barry goldwaters banjo…”
      Kent Taylor – “8-15-66”
      T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “at twilight that moment when…”
      d.a. levy “We are all Putting Out / But Noone is Receiving”
      Geoffrey A. Cook – “Upon Allen Ginsberg’s Reading in Cleveland”
      d.a. levy – “Poem for Lama Ginsberg”
      Malcolm Hall – [untitled] “Returning home yesterday…”
      Walter R. Keller – “A Vision of St. Lucy’s Day”
      Russell Salamon – [untitled] “smooth extensions of now…”
      Grace Butcher – “Thank You Note”
      Matt Shulman – [untitled] “u sit back in the crowd…”
      John Wherry – “A Cleveland Composite in 3 Parts”

2. FREE LOVE PERIODICALLY, No. 2, guest-edited by Tom Kryss
Cleveland: Free Love Press, June 1967

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5” x 11”, 32 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Illustrations by Dagmar and d.a. levy. Cover art by Dagmar.

“The editor is in jail & FLP #2 is being put out by telepathic juice ray mind batteries”

  • Contents:
    1. d.a. levy – “There Seems to be Some Discrepancy or Why is RJS in Jail?”
      d.a. levy – “What Can I Say?”
      Rik Davis – “Letter to The Cleveland Plain Dealer, May 18”
      Richard W. Morris – [letter]
      D.r. Wagner – [untitled] “Now it isn’t everyday…”
      Kent Taylor – [untitled] “i always dreamed of…”
      Willie – [untitled] “There are no crickets in Albuquerque!”
      Bill Bissett – [untitled] “yur not to know it all…”
      Bill Bissett – “In Other Words th Food of th Soul”
      T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “Jesus g siss G cyst…”
      R Wolter – “Ode to Pote”
      D.r. Wagner – [untitled] “No place to puncture…”
      Pete Gregory – “Final Peace”
      D.r. Wagner – [untitled] “Man I used to drink…”
      d.a. levy – “Psychedelic Information Center”
      George Montgomery – “Message to Cunda”
      Pete Gregory – “You Sitting in the Lotus Position”
      Pete Gregory – “Beach Girl”
      D.r. Wagner – [untitled] “this girl and she was…”
      T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “i hear the fogbells burning…”
      William Gallo – “Ashcroft, You”
      Douglas Blazek – “Youth Psalm”
      William Gallo – “Dream Two”
      Kent Taylor – “4/16/67”
      George Montgomery – “Salesman”
      rjs – “Ditto”
      Joyce Guion – “Eulogy for an Eagle”
      Clive Matson – “On the Way”
      R. Wolter – “For Gene Bloom, Who was Lately Sentenced”
      d.a. levy – “Visualized Prayer for the American God #5”

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 Marrahwanna Quarterly

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:
    1. 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:
    1. 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:
    1. 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:
    1. 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:
    1. 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:
    1. 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:
    1. 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:
    1. 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:
    1. 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:
    1. 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:
    1. 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:
    1. 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:
    1. 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:
    1. 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]

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…”