- d.a. levy Checklist
- Section A: Books and Other Separate Publications
- Section B: Contributions to Books and Other Publications
- Section C: Contributions to Periodicals
- Section D: Publications Edited and Published
- Section E: Periodicals Edited and Published
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- 1. The Silver Cesspool (Nos. 1-5, 1963-1964)
- 2. The Marrahwanna Quarterly (14 issues, 1964-1968)
- 3. Poets at the Gate (Nos. 1-4, 1966)
- 4. Shit Sheet (Nos. 1-2, 1966)
- 5. Marrahwannah Newsletter (Nos. 1-4, 1967)
- 6. Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle (Nos. 1-17, 1967-1968)
Section F: Compilations and Reprints
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· Jim Lowell’s d.a. levy checklist
· Alan Horvath and Kirpan Press
References Consulted:
THE BUDDHIST THIRD CLASS JUNKMAIL ORACLE: The Art and Poetry of d.a. levy, edited by Mike Golden. NY: Seven Stories Press, 1999.
D.A. LEVY & THE MIMEOGRAPH REVOLUTION, edited by Larry Smith and Ingrid Swanberg. Huron: Bottom Dog Press, 2007
LOOKING FOR D.A. LEVY (RANDOM SIGHTINGS): THE D.A. LEVY BIBLIOGRAPHY, Volume 1 [1963-1966], edited by Kent Taylor and Alan Horvath. Vancouver: Kirpan Press, 2006
LOOKING FOR D.A. LEVY (RANDOM SIGHTINGS): THE D.A. LEVY BIBLIOGRAPHY, Volume 2 [1967-1968], edited by Kent Taylor and Alan Horvath. Vancouver: Kirpan Press, 2008
ZEN CONCRETE & ETC. BY D.A. LEVY, edited by Ingrid Swanberg. Madison: Ghost Pony Press, 1991
Online Resources:
· Cleveland Memory Project
· d.a. levy home page
· Deep Cleveland
· Literary Kicks
Some notes on printing methods:
Mimeograph:
The stencil duplicator or mimeograph machine is a low-cost duplicating machine that works by forcing black ink through a stencil onto paper. The mimeograph process should not be confused with the spirit duplicator process.
Unlike spirit duplicators (where the only ink available is depleted from the master image), mimeograph technology works by forcing a replenishable supply of ink through the stencil master. In theory, the mimeography process could be continued indefinitely, especially if a durable stencil master were used (e.g. a thin metal foil). In practice, most low-cost mimeo stencils gradually wear out over the course of producing several hundred copies. Typically the stencil deteriorates gradually, producing a characteristic degraded image quality until the stencil tears, abruptly ending the print run. If further copies are desired at this point, another stencil must be made.
Spirit Duplicator:
A spirit duplicator (also referred to as a Ditto machine in North America, Banda machine in the UK or Roneo in Australia, France and South Africa) was a printing method invented in 1923. The term “spirit duplicator” refers to the alcohols which were a major component of the solvents used as “inks” in these machines.
The usual wax color was aniline purple (mauve), a cheap, moderately durable pigment that provided good contrast, but masters were also manufactured in red, green, blue, black, and the hard-to-find orange, yellow, and brown. All except black reproduced in pastel shades: pink, mint, sky blue, and so on.
Spirit duplicators had the useful ability to print multiple colors in a single pass, which made them popular with cartoonists. Multi-colored designs could be made by swapping out the waxed second sheets; for instance, shading in only the red portion of an illustration while the top sheet was positioned over a red-waxed second sheet. This was possible because the duplicating fluid was not ink, but a clear solvent.