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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
First 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
First 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).
