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Do-It

1. DO-IT!, No. 1, edited by Matt Shulman
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
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”

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…”

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 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]

d.a. levy: Publications Edited and Published

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Section D:
This index includes publication edited and published by d.a. levy (excluding periodicals and serial publications: see Section E)

1. levy, d.a. FRAGMENTS OF A SHATTERED MIRROR
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1963
Saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 44 pages, 100 numbered and signed copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. The poet’s first book. (T&H P-01)

2. levy, d.a. VARIATIONS ON FLIP
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1963
Saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 36 pages, 100 numbered and signed copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-02)

3. levy, d.a. MORE WITHDRAWED OR LESS
a. First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1963
Saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 36 pages, 100 numbered and signed copies, letterpress printed in multiple colors by d.a. levy.
(T&H P-03)

b. Second printing, revised:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1963
Saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 21 pages, 100 copies, signed, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-16)

This printing includes poems in a different sequence than the first printing, plus one additional poem.

4. Beck, George Robert. DREAMS AT THE TEA-TABLE
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1963
Saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 32 pages, 100 numbered copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-04)

5. Billera, Jau. PURGATORY AND CAROUSELS
Second edition, first printing thus:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1963
Saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 40 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by d.a. levy. (T&H P-05)

This Renegade Press edition reprints the first section titled Purgatory and Carousels from the Free Lance Press edition of the same title printed in 1963; this edition also adds a new section, not in the first, titled Carousels.

6. Morris, Richard Allen. BRUSHED POEMS & A LITTLE PUTSCH
Second edition, first printing thus:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1963
Saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 24 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by d.a. levy. (T&H P-06)

This Renegade Press edition is a second printing after a self-published first printing by Morris in Pacific Beach, California.

7. Atkins, Russell. OBJECTS 2
a. First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1963
Saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 28 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by d.a. levy. (T&H P-07)

This Renegade Press edition includes three poems that appear in Objects (Eureka: Hearse Press, 1960) but is otherwise a different collection.

b. Second printing, revised:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964
Saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 20 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-17)

This printing has the sequence of poems changed from the first printing, plus added one poem.

8. Czaban, Jr., Lester. NIGHT GARDEN *
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1963
Postcard, 3″ x 5″, letterpress printed and with a block print by d.a. levy. Published as the first “Un-‘Pop Art’ Postcard”. (T&H P-09)

9. levy, d.a. A STUDY IN AERODYNAMICS
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1963
Postcard, 3″ x 5″, letterpress printed and with a block print by d.a. levy. (T&H P-10)

10. levy, d.a. THREE LEGGED INTROVERT
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1963
Postcard, 3″ x 5″, letterpress printed and with a block print by d.a. levy. Published as the second “Un-‘Pop Art’ Postcard”. (T&H P-11)

11. levy, d.a. ANKARA
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1963
Postcard, 3″ x 5″, letterpress printed and with a block print by d.a. levy. Published as the third “Un-‘Pop Art’ Postcard”. (T&H P-12)

12. levy, d.a. HAPPY HIROSHIMA DAY
First edition:
Cleveland: n.p., 1963
Folding card, 9″ x 3″, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-13)

13. Taylor, Kent. SELECTED POEMS OF KENT TAYLOR
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1963
Saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 20 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by d.a. levy. (T&H P-14)

14. Heckman, Carl. CORNPONETONEPOME
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1963
Saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 5″ x 7.5″, 20 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-15)

15. Berge, Carol. THE VULNERABLE ISLAND
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964
Side-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 20 pages, 105 copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Dedication: “for E.R. Lyon”. (T&H P-18)

16. Crews, Judson. SELECTED POEMS
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964
Side-stapled in printed wrappers, 4.75″ x 7″, 16 pages, 100 copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Block prints by Lester Czaban Jr. (T&H P-19)

17. Katzman, Allan. THE BLOODLETTING
a. First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964
Side-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 6.5″, 16 pages, 100 copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-20)

b. First edition, second printing:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965
Side-stapled in wrappers made from maps, 4.5″ x 5.25″, 10 pages, 200 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy.
(T&H P-57)

18. Konyecsni, John. BIRDS *
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964
Postcard, 3″ x 5″, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Block print by John Konyecsni. (T&H P-21)

19. Czaban Jr., Lester. STEALING
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964
Postcard, 3″ x 5″, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Block print by Lester Czaban, Jr. (T&H P-23)

20. Levey, Charlene. ECSTATIC NOMAD *
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964
Postcard, 3″ x 5″, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Block print by Charlene Levey.
(T&H P-24)

21. Salamon, Russell. THE TRIAL *
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964
Postcard, 3″ x 5″, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Block print by Russell Salamon. (T&H P-25)

22. Keys, John. KEY’S
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964
Side-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 6.5″, 16 pages, 100 copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-26)

23. levy, d.a. 5 CLEVELAND PRINTS
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964
Five prints laid into printed wrappers, 11.5″ x 6.75″, 50 copies, letterpress printed and with prints by d.a. levy. (T&H P-27)

24. levy, d.a. 6 CLEVELAND PRINTS, Volume 2
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964
Six prints laid into printed wrappers, 10″ x 6″, 50 copies, letterpress printed and with prints by d.a. levy. (T&H P-28)

25. Randall, Margaret. POEMS OF THE GLASS
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964
Side-stapled in printed wrappers, 5″ x 7″, 16 pages, 100 copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Block prints by Cathy Crayton. Dedication: “for Sergio”. (T&H P-29)

26. Rasey, Dave. SUBWAYS
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964
Side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5″ x 7″, 12 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Block prints by A. Sypher (pseud. Marvin Malone). Dedication: “for Carol Bergé”. (T&H P-30)

27. Salamon, Russell. PARENT[HETICAL POP]PIES
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964
Side-stapled and bound in printed wrappers, 4.75″ x 7″, 16 pages, 100 copies, letterpress printed and with block prints by d.a. levy. Dedication: “for Lewis Turco”. (T&H P-31)

28. Sanders, Ed. KING LORD, QUEEN FREAK
a. First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964
Side-stapled and bound in printed wrappers, 6″ x 7″, 16 pages, 105 copies, letterpress printed and with prints by d.a. levy. Dedication: “to the dope-freaks, poets, madmen & mother fuckers of the Lower East Side”. (T&H P-32)

b. First edition, second printing:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965
Side-stapled in printed wrappers, 4.5″ x 7″, 12 pages, letterpress printed and with block prints by d.a. levy. Dedication: “to the dope-freaks, poets, madmen & mother fuckers of the Lower East Side”. (T&H P-59)

29. Schramm, Irene. WHO IS DEAD
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964
Saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.75″ x 8.5″, 16 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Dedication: “for ee”. (T&H P-33)

30. Taylor, Kent. ALEATORY LETTERS
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964
Side-stapled and bound in printed and illustrated wrappers, 6″ x 7″, 14 pages, 57 numbered copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy and Kent Taylor. Illustrated with block prints by Kent Taylor. (T&H P-39)

31. levy, d.a. FAREWELL THE FLOATING CUNT
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964
Side-stapled and bound in printed wrappers, 6″ x 6.25″, 14 pages, 105 copies, letterpress printed and with block prints by d.a. levy. Dedication: “for my brother, James”.
(T&H P-40)

32. [Polluted Lake Series] Atkins, Russell. DISTANT THE SOUND
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965
Saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 4.25″ x 6″, 12 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Published as Polluted Lake Series, No. 1. (T&H P-43)

33. [Polluted Lake Series] Cook, Geoffrey A. [untitled] “WOUND…”
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965
Side-stapled in printed wrappers, 2″ x 5″, 16 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Published as Polluted Lake Series, No. 2. (T&H P-44)

34. [Polluted Lake Series] Albrecht, Erik K. [untitled] “OH4286AW…”
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965
Saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5″ x 4.5″, 12 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by Dave Williams. Published as Polluted Lake Series, No. 3. (T&H P-45)

35. [Polluted Lake Series] Taylor, Kent. [untitled] “MIST…”
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965
Side-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 4.5″, 12 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Published as Polluted Lake Series, No. 4. (T&H P-46)

36. [Polluted Lake Series] Salamon, Russell. CONFLICT IN SONATA FORM
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965
Saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 4.5″, 12 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Published as Polluted Lake Series, No. 5.
(T&H P-47)

37. [Polluted Lake Series] levy, d.a. “ASTER F…”
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965
Saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 4.5″, 12 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Published as Polluted Lake Series, No. 6.
(T&H P-48)

38. [Polluted Lake Series] Morgan, Edwin. SCOTCH MIST
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965
Side-stapled sheets bound in to printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 2″, 16 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Published as Polluted Lake Series, No. 7. (T&H P-49)

39. [Polluted Lake Series] Houedard, Dom Sylvester. VIENNA CIRCLES
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965
Side-stapled sheets bound in to printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 2.5″, 12 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Dedication: “for Ernst Jandl”. Published as Polluted Lake Series, No. 8. (T&H P-50)

40. [Polluted Lake Series] Dogin, Sam. SHIT TARGET
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965
Side-stapled and bound in wrappers made from wallpaper, 6″ x 8.75″, 2 pages, photocopy printed. Published as Polluted Lake Series, No. 9.
(T&H P-51)

41. [Polluted Lake Series] Cornillon, Susan Koppelman. SUSAN UNDER JOHN
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965
Side-stapled in printed wrappers made from wallpaper, 5″ x 3.5″, 12 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Published as Polluted Lake Series, No. 10. (T&H P-52)

42. [Polluted Lake Series] Denis, Alan [pseud. d.a. levy]. SLEEP
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965
Side-stapled in printed wrappers, 4.5″ x 2″, 8 pages, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Published using levy’s pseudonym Alan Denis. Dedication: “for Saint Ronald Jump”. Published as Polluted Lake Series, No. 11. (T&H P-53)

43. [Polluted Lake Series] Dagmar. SHADOWS OVER LAKE ERIE
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965
Side-stapled in wrappers made from wallpaper, 4.75″ x 4″, 8 pages, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Published as Polluted Lake Series, No. 12.
(T&H P-54)

44. Larsen, Carl. LEAH
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965
Side-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 10 pages, 100 copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-58)

45. levy, d.a. ALEATORY ATTEMPTS AT MONEY MAKING *
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965
Side-stapled in plain wrappers, 4 copies. (T&H P-60)

46. levy, d.a. CHALCHIHUITLICUE *
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965
Side-stapled in printed wrappers, 3 pages, 37 copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Dedication: “for Carol Bergé”. (T&H P-61)

47. levy, d.a. 50 SECONDS TIL BLASTOFF *
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965
Saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 50 pages, 37 copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-62)

48. levy, d.a. and Kent Taylor. FORTUITONS MOTHERFUCER
a. First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965
Side-stapled in printed wrappers with newspaper insert, 5.75″ x 8.5″, 10 pages, 75 copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Note: cover variants exist in two different sizes and two different colored cover stocks. (T&H P-63)

b. Facsimile edition:
Toronto: Letters Bookshop, 1995
Saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 10 pages, 30 numbered copies, photocopy printed.

49. [Ohio City Series] Szuter, Thom. SUMMER FROM UNDER A BUSH
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1965
Side-stapled and bound in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 3.5″, 28 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Published as Ohio City Series, No. 1. (T&H P-64)

50. [Ohio City Series] Kent Taylor. [untitled] “OVER…”
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1965
Side-stapled and bound in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 3.5″, 14 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Published as Ohio City Series, No. 2. (T&H P-65)

51. [Ohio City Series] Cornillon, Susan Koppelman. FUCK POEMS
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1965
Side-stapled and bound in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 7″, 10 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Published as Ohio City Series, No. 3.
(T&H P-66)

52. [Ohio City Series] Nichol, bp. CYCLES ETC.
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1965
Side-stapled and bound in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 7″, 8 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Published as Ohio City Series, No. 4.
(T&H P-67)

53. [Ohio City Series] Albrecht, Eric K. WORDS AND NUMBERS
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1965
Side-stapled and bound in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 7″, 12 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Published as Ohio City Series, No. 5.
(T&H P-68)

54. [Ohio City Series] levy, d.a. GOT BUTTER ON IT
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1965
Side-stapled sheets bound in to printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 7″, 12 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Dedication: “for Bud”. Published as Ohio City Series, No. 6. (T&H P-69)

55. [Ohio City Series] Dagmar. BIRMINGHAM BREAKDOWN
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1965
Side-stapled and bound in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 7″, 10 pages, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Published as Ohio City Series, No. 7. (T&H P-70)

56. Bergé, Carol. LUMINA
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1965
Side-stapled and bound in printed wrappers, 5.75″ x 4.25″, 8 pages, 178 copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-71)

57. Harris, Marguerite. MOON
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1965
Side-stapled and bound in printed wrappers, 5.25″ x 5.75″, 6 pages, 200 copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy.
(T&H P-72)

58. Szuter, Thom. WINTER: 1965
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1965
Side-stapled and bound in printed wrappers, 5.75″ x 2.5″, 8 pages, 78 copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-73)

59. levy, d.a. PLASTIC SAXOPHONE FOUND IN AN EGYPTIAN TOMB
First edition:
Cleveland: n.p., 1966
Side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 11 pages, 100 copies, spirit duplicator printed. (T&H P-74)

60. levy, d.a. WHITE LIGHT
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Side-stapled and bound in printed wrappers, 10″ x 3.75″, 26 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Dedication: “for Sam Dogin”. (T&H P-75)

61. Taylor, Kent. LATE STATIONS
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Side-stapled and bound in illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 21 pages, 200 copies, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover block print by Carl Woideck, introduction by d.a. levy.
(T&H P-76)

62. [anthology] LONG DONGS, edited by d.a. levy
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Side-stapled and bound in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 30 pages, 300 copies, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by Beorna. Contributors include Joe Nickell, Steve Richmond, Douglas Blazek. (T&H P-77)

63. Butcher, Grace. THE BRIGHT COLORED DARK
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Side-stapled and bound in illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 22 pages, 250 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by Baldwin Ford, introduction by d.a. levy. (T&H P-78)

64. THE PARA-CONCRETE MANIFESTO, edited by d.a. levy *
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Single sheet, 8.5″ x 11″, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Contributors include d.a. levy, D.r. Wagner, Kent Taylor.
(T&H P-82)

65. levy, d.a. THE CEMENT FUCK
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1966
Side-stapled and bound in painted wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 20 pages, 110 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by Mara. Introduction by Khu-en-oho. Partial mimeograph stencil bound in. (T&H P-88)

66. levy, d.a. VISUALIZED PRAYERS & HYMN FOR THE AMERICAN $GOD$
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1966
Side-stapled in printed wrappers, 9″ x 5.75″, 12 pages, 115 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Dedicated “to americans dying in foreign countries when there are battles to be fought in america”. (T&H P-89)

67. levy, d.a. LINES FOR LADY JANE
First edition:
Cleveland: n.p., 1966
Side-stapled in card covers with unique painting tipped on to each copy, 5″ x 7″, 2 pages, mimeograph and letterpress printed with block prints and oil paint by d.a. levy. (T&H P-90)

68. levy, d.a. SCARAB
First edition:
Cleveland: n.p., 1966
Side-stapled and bound in printed card covers, 4.5″ x 7″, 12 pages, mimeograph and letterpress printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-91)

69. levy, d.a. HAPY HIROSHIMA DAY
First edition thus, second printing:
Cleveland: n.p., 1966
Single 6″ x 7″ sheet folded once to make four pages, letterpress printed and with a block print by d.a. levy. (T&H P-93)

70. Naville, Edouard. THE LITANY OF RA *
First edition:
Cleveland: n.p., 1966
Side-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 12 pages, 33 copies, mimeograph printed. Introduction by d.a. levy. (T&H P-94)

71. Barker, Richard. 3 POEMS
First edition:
Cleveland: n.p., 1966
Corner-stapled with illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 6 pages, 100 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by d.a. levy.
(T&H P-95)

72. levy, d.a. THE GREAT TIBETAN TRAIN ROBBERY MYSTERY PLAY IN COLOR: A MANDALA HERNIA RUPTURED WORD GAME
First edition:
Swamp Erie, n.p., 1966
Side-stapled in printed wrappers, 5″ x 8″, 38 pages, 73 copies, mimeograph printed. Includes multiple sheets laid in with hand-written titling. Distributed by Ganglia Press as Singing Hands Series #3.
(T&H P-96)

Note: According to the Ganglia Press Index (Ganglia, Series 1, No. 8) this item was “printed in Cleveland by 7 Flowers Press & distributed by Ganglia”.

73. THE PUKING PIGEON #1 OR THE FUCKING DUCK #1 OR THE SEARCHING FOR THE HOLY HOUKAH REVEALED #1, edited by d.a. levy
First edition:
Cleveland: 400 Rabbit Press, 1966
Side-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 5″ x 6″, 14 pages, 115 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by d.a. levy. Illustration by Dagmar. Contributors include Paul Blackburn, d.a. levy, W.E. Wyatt, Luis Garcia, Jerry Younkins, Allen Katzman, and Lyndon John Puw. (T&H P-101)

74. Rhody, Randy. PARACHUTES
First edition:
Cleveland: 400 Rabbit Press, 1966
Side-stapled and bound in painted wrappers, 6.75″ x 8.5″, 6 pages, 125 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Unique water-color cover art by MaRa. (T&H P-102)

75. Blackburn, Paul. 16 SLOPPY HAIKU & A LYRIC FOR ROBERT REARDON
First edition:
Cleveland: 400 Rabbit Press, 1966
Side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 10 pages, 45 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by Al Diamonstein. Dedication: “for Eunice and Maia”. (T&H P-103)

76. levy, d.a. and D.r. Wagner. BLACK HAT AT THE END OF THE BAR
First edition:
Cleveland: 400 Rabbit Press, 1966
Side-stapled in hand-painted wrappers, 8.75″ x 5″, 26 pages, 120 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy with additional hand-written, hand-painted, and collage elements by d.a. levy and Mara. Text is co-authored by levy and Wagner. (T&H P-104)

77. Diamondstein, Al. DEATH TO ALL NON-BELIEVERS
First edition:
Cleveland: 400 Rabbit Press, 1966
Saddle-stapled in plain wrappers, 4.5″ x 2″, 20 pages, “approximately” 50 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-105)

78. 465, AN ANTHOLOGY OF CLEVELAND POETS, edited by d.a. levy
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Side-stapled in silk-screened cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 64 pages, 500 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover silkscreen by Ralph and Diedra Poplar. (T&H P-106)

Contributors include Russell Atkins, Judith Hawthorne Albrecht, Grace Butcher, Geoffrey Cook, John Cornillon, Susan Cornillon, Joel Marc Deutsch, Joel Friedman, Bennet Hassink, Walter R. Keller, Joyce Guion, T.L. Kryss, Jacob Leed, d.a. levy, Mara, Franklin W.W. Osinski, r.j.s., Thom Szuter, Kent Taylor, Don Thomas, Kathie Lenehan. Preface by Rene Char.

Note: 465 was the first address of Jim Lowell’s Asphodel Book Shop in The Arcade in Cleveland.

79. levy, d.a. CLEVELAND UNDERCOVERS
a. First edition, regular copies:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Side-stapled and bound in illustrated wrappers, 6″ x 8.5″, 18 pages, 500 copies, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by dagmar. Dedicated to Jim Lowell. (T&H P-107)

b. First edition, special copies:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Side-stapled and bound in collaged and printed wrappers, 6″ x 8.5″, 18 pages, 65 special copies with “Freak” covers by the author, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Dedicated to Jim Lowell. (T&H P-107)

80. levy, d.a. GREAT MAN SLEEPING IN A CLOSET
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Side-stapled in printed and collaged wrappers, 4.75″ x 2.5″, 6 pages, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Dedicated to Richard Allen Morris. (T&H P-108)

81. levy, d.a. THE NORTH AMERICAN BOOK OF THE DEAD
Second edition, revised:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Side-stapled and bound in printed and hand-painted wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 56 pages, 210 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Unique cover painting by d.a. levy. This is the first 7 Flowers Press edition, but the second revised printing after the Free Lance Press edition (see A17). (T&H P-109)

82. levy, d.a. & D.r. Wagner. THE EGYPTIAN STROBOSCOPE
a. First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Side-stapled and bound in silk-screened wrappers, 8.5″ x 14″, 68 pages, 108 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by Grady Jones.
(T&H P-110) *

b.First edition, second printing:
Cleveland: Grass Coin Publishing Company, 1967
Side-stapled in collaged wrappers, 8.5″ x 14″, 46 pages, 100 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by Dagmar. (T&H P-145)

“This is one of the publications seized by the cleveland police in the dec. 1966 blitz-bomb”.

83. Albrecht, Erik K. OCTOBER
a. First edition, regular copies
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Side-stapled and bound in printed wrappers, 2.25″ x 6″, 12 pages, 100 copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-111)

b. First edition, special copies
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Side-stapled and bound in printed wrappers, 2.25″ x 6″, 12 pages, 20 special copies with cover art by Beorna, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. (not in T&H)

84. Atkins, Russell. SPYRYTUAL
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Side-stapled and bound in printed wrappers, 4.25″ x 8.25″, 4 pages, 200 copies, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-112)

85. Walker, Joe. 4 POEMS FROM THE CHICAGO MS.
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Side-stapled and bound in illustrated wrappers, 4″ x 6″, 10 pages, 100 copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Cover by Dana Crumb. (T&H P-113)

86. Leed Jacob. POEMS OF JACOB LEED
a. First edition, regular copies:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Side-stapled and bound in printed and illustrated wrappers, 6.5″ x 6″, 14 pages, 205 copies, letterpress printed and with block prints by d.a. levy. (T&H P-114)

b. First edition, special copies:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Side-stapled in hand-painted wrappers with library tape binding, 8.5″ x 11″, 20 pages, 5 copies, letterpress printed and with hand-painted cover and 3 full painted pages by d.a. levy. (not in T&H)

87. Sauls, Roger. PAIDEUMIC DREAMS / MIRACLES & ECSTASIES
a. First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Side-stapled in printed and painted wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 40 pages, 200 copies, mimeograph printed and with unique cover painting by d.a. levy. Introduction by D.r. Wagner. (T&H P-115)

b. First edition, second printing :
Cleveland: The Grass Coin Publishing Co., 1967
Side-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 22 pages, 125 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by MaRa. Introduction by D.r. Wagner. (T&H P-148)

Note from the title page: “This volume of poems is one of the ‘allegedly obscene’ books seized by the cleveland police in december 1966. The city has continued its campaign to obliterate all non-aryan writings, intoxicants & spokesmen. This printing is in protest to the lack of intelligent police leadership.”

88. Bukowski, Charles. GENIUS OF THE CROWD
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Side-stapled and bound in printed and illustrated wrappers, 4.5″ x 6″, 22 pages, 103 copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Prints by Paula Marie Savarino. (T&H P-117)

89. Montgomery, George. THE MARY-JANE PAPERS
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 14″, 22 pages, 200 copies, mimeograph printed and with an introduction by d.a. levy. (T&H P-118)

90. Wood, Kay. GREENWOOD
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Side-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 16 pages, 103 copies, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Block prints by Grady Jones. (T&H P-119)

91. Shulman, Matthew H. THE BALLAD OF NO BERETS
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Broadside, 8″ x 10.5″, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-121)

92. 306, AN ANTHOLOGY OF CLEVELAND POETS, edited by d.a. levy
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1967
Side-stapled in silk-screened cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 50 pages, 306 copies, mimeograph and spirit duplicator printed and with an introduction by d.a. levy. Original artwork by Mara. Cover photograph of Jim Lowell standing in front of the Asphodel book shop by Martin Szuter. (T&H P-124)

Contributors include Judith H. Albrecht, Marion Black, Joel Marc Deutsch, Joyce Guion, Tim Hall, T.L. Kryss, d.a. levy, RJS, Kent Taylor, Carl Woideck, MJW.

Note: 306 was the W. Superior address for the Asphodel Book Shop following the departure from The Arcade.

93. levy, d.a. KIBBUTZ IN THE SKY
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1967
Side-stapled in illustrated wrapper, 8.5″ x 11″, 13 pages, 150 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by j.r.s. (T&H P-132)

94. levy, d.a. KIBBUTZ IN THE SKY, BOOK II
a. First edition, first printing *
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1967
Side-stapled in printed cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 8 pages, 200 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy.
(T&H P-133)

b. First edition, second printing
Cleveland: Free Love Press, 1967
Side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 8 pages, 200 copies, spirit duplicator printed by d.a. levy. (not in T&H)

95. levy, d.a. THE BOX LUNCH TRAVEL-OG OF FREMONT GULCH
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1967
Side-stapled sheets in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 10 pages, spirit duplicator printed by d.a. levy.
(Lowell A32, T&H P-134)

96. JAMES R. LOWELL DEFENSE FUND, edited by d.a. levy
First edition:
Cleveland: n.p., 1967
Corner-stapled in illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 4 pages, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy.
(T&H P-134)

Contributors include d.a. levy and Joe Brainard.

97. Krech, Richard. WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF ECSTACY
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1967
Side-stapled in hand-painted cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 14 pages, 250 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Unique cover art by Mara. (T&H P-138)

98. Shulman, Matt. FLAGS OF LONELINESS
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1967
Side-stapled and bound in wrappers made from Geology of Ohio map, 4.5″ x 6″, 8 pages, 200 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-139)

99. Wyatt, W.E. POEMS OF W.E. WYATT
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1967
Side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 22 pages, 200 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Drawings by Mara.
(T&H P-140)

100. THREE POEMS BY CLEVELAND POETS, edited by d.a. levy
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1967
Side-stapled in hand-painted wrappers, 4.5″ x 5.5″, 4 pages, 86 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by Mara. (T&H P-141)

Contributors include Kent Taylor, Carl Woideck, and d.a. levy.

101. Wagner, D.r. THE DAY IS A PRAYER THEY CAN’T UNDERSTAND!
a. First edition, hand-painted copies:
Cleveland: 7 FlowersPress, 1967
Side-stapled in hand-painted cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 40 pages, 150 copies, mimeograph printed and with cover art by d.a. levy. Introduction by T.L. Kryss, and “note by publisher” by d.a. levy.
(T&H P-142)

b. First edition, collage copies:
Cleveland: 7 FlowersPress, 1967
Side-stapled in original collage cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 40 pages, 150 copies, mimeograph printed and with cover art by d.a. levy. Introduction by T.L. Kryss, and “note by publisher” by d.a. levy.
(T&H P-142)

Note: the total print run is 150; no count or priority to hand-painted or collage cover copies.

102. Saint-Eden, Dennis. NAPALM/ HYDROEM POR NADIE/ PSAMBA
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1967
Side-stapled and bound in silk-screened wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 16 pages, 275 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover silkscreen by T.L. Kryss. (T&H P-143)

103. Fowler, Gene. GENE FOWLER WRITES *
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1967
Side-stapled, 8.5″ x 11″, 10 pages, 250 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-144)

Note: this is the first separate edition of this reprint from Poetry Newsletter: “Home Correspondence Course in Enlightenment”.

104. levy, d.a. POEM FOR JULIE
First edition:
Cleveland: Grass Coin Publishing Co., 1967
Side-stapled in silk-screened cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 8 pages, 260 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover illustration after a photo by M.J. Roach. (T&H P-146)

105. POETRY SURVIVAL FUND, edited by d.a. levy
First edition:
Cleveland: Grass Coin Publishing Co., 1967
Side-stapled in painted cover, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 6 pages, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by Joyce Guion. (T&H P-147)

Contributors include Grace Butcher, Cleo Malone, Basho, Joyce Guion, d.a. levy, D.r. Wagner.

106. SWAMP ERIE PIPE DREAM, Vol. 1, No. 1, edited by d.a. levy
First edition:
Cleveland: n.p., May 1967
Tabloid format, 11.5″ x 15.5″, 4 pages, offset printed. (T&H P-153)

107. levy, d.a. THE TIBETAN STROBOSCOPE
First edition:
Cleveland: Ayizan Press, 1968
Saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 7.5″ x 11.75″, 32 pages, 4000 copies (though 3000 are rumored to have been destroyed by the author), offset printed on newsprint. Dedicated to Allen Ginsberg, Alan Watts, Robert Aitken, Phillip Kapleau, Paul Reps, and Philip Whalen. (Lowell A44, T&H P-174)

“An experiment in destructive writing other communications and concrete prose”.

108. Ferguson, Steve and Mara. FLOWERS FOR BRIAN SHERMAN
First edition:
Cleveland: Ayizan Press, 1968
Side-stapled sheets in silk-screened wrappers, 7″ x 8″, 10 pages, 150 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by T. L. Kryss.
(T&H P-175)

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