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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…”

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]

Douglas Blazek: Books and Broadsides

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Section A:
This index includes books and broadsides published during Blazek’s “prolific early period”.

1. ALL GODS MUST LEARN TO KILL
Demarest: Analecta Press, 1968
First edition, perfect-bound illustrated wrappers, 7″ x 9″, 78 pages, 1000 copies. Preface by Brown Miller. Illustrations and cover by R. Crumb, frontispiece Jeff Nuttall, and photo collages by d.a. levy. Blazek’s first solo book of poetry. (DenBoer A2)

2. HOMAGE TO THE SQUARE, THE BLACKS, IAN HAMILTON FINLEY & MARSHALL MCLUHAN
San Francisco: Cold Mountain Publishing, 1968
First edition, single sheet folded once to make four pages, 7” x 5.5”, 449 copies . A concrete poem. Interior image silkscreen printed by Tom Kryss. (DenBoer A3)

3. LIFE IN A COMMON GUN
Madison: Quixote, 1968
First edition, stapled wrappers (some early copies comb-bound), 7” x 9”, 72 pages. A collection of letters from Blazek to Cauble, Pete Larouche, Willie, and Brown Miller. Illustrations and cover by Blazek. (DenBoer A4)

4. STING & DIE
Eugene: Toad Press, 1968
First edition, stapled wrappers, 5″ x 7.5″, 16 pages. (DenBoer A5)

5. BATTLEFIELD SYRUP
San Francisco: Lone Ranger Biology Press, 1969
First edition, stapled wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 28 pages. Published as Meatball #3. (DenBoer A7)

6. BAPTISMAL CORRUPTION IN THE SUNFLOWER PATCH. Sacramento: Runcible Spoon, 1969
First edition, stapled wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 32 pages. Introduction by Don Cauble. Illustrated By Thorne. (DenBoer A8)

7. BROKEN KNUCKLE POEMS.
Cleveland, Black Rabbit Press, 1969
First edition, stapled silkscreened wrappers, 60 pages, 8.5” x 11”, 500 copies. Introduction by T.L. Kryss. Illustrations by Aaron Pori, silkscreened by Kryss. (DenBoer A9)

8. FUCK OFF, UNLESS YOU TAKE OFF THAT MASK
Milwaukee: Gunrunner Press, 1969
First edition, stapled pictorial wrappers, 28 pages, 7″ x 8.5″, 350 copies. (DenBoer A11)

9. I ADVANCE WITH A LOADED ROSE
San Francisco: Two Windows Press, 1969
First edition, stapled illustrated wrappers, 6.5″ x 10″, 650 copies. Cover art by T. L. Kryss. (DenBoer A12)

10. CLIMBING BLIND
Cardiff: Second Aeon, 1970
First edition, stapled illustrated wrappers, 16 pages, 5″ x 8″, 200 copies. Illustrated by Hapt Schwiiz. (DenBoer A13)

11. FLUX & REFLUX: JOURNIES IN A MAGICAL FLUID
Berkeley: Oyez, 1970
First edition, paperback, 57 pages, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 1000 copies. Illustrated by Michael Myers and designed and printed by Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press. (DenBoer A14)

12. GROWTH IS A KANGAROO COURT
New York: Atom Mind Publications, 1970
First edition, stapled wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″. (DenBoer A15)

13. MAGICAL ASSASSINATION
Minneapolis [San Francisco]: Andabata Press, 1964 [1970]
First edition, stapled wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 200 copies. Cover drawing by Blazek’s son, Nathan. Published under the pseudonym Jack Meoff. [There was no Andabata Press, the book was self-published in San Francisco in 1970.] (DenBoer A16)

14. WE CAN BE GENTLE AND UNDECEIVED BOTH
Minneapolis [San Francisco]: Andabata Press, 1964 [1970]
First edition, stapled wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 200 copies. Cover drawing by Blazek’s son, Aaron. Published under the pseudonym Peter Wellinher. [There was no Andabata Press, the book was self-published in San Francisco in 1970.] (DenBoer A17)

15. SKULL JUICES
San Francisco: Twowindows Press, 1970
First edition, paperback, 80 pages, 5.75″ x 8.75″, 1000 copies with 50 copies in separate bindings signed by the author. Introduction by Charles Bukowski. (DenBoer A18)

16. THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED, ISN’T IT?
Watertown: Augtwofive, 1970
First edition, stapled wrappers, 44 pages, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 1000 copies with 26 lettered and signed by the author. Illustrated with collages by Blazek. (DenBoer A19)

17. WHY MAN GOES TO THE MOON
Milwaukee: Morgan Press, 1970
First edition, stapled illustrated wrappers, 16 pages, 6″ x 9″, 300 copies. Illustrated by Vickie Burton. Published as Hey Lady Supplement No. 5. (DenBoer A21)

18. ZANY TYPHOONS
Sacramento: Open Skull Press, 1970
First edition, perfect bound illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 200 copies. Illustrated by Robert Crumb. (DenBoer A22)

19. IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE FAMOUS
Cardiff: Second Aeon, 1971
First edition, stapled wrappers, 8 pages, 8.25″ x 11.5″, 100 copies. (DenBoer A23)

20. INNER MARATHONS
London: Killaly Press, 1973
First edition, stapled wrappers, 22 pages, 7.25″ x 8.75″, 100 copies. Published as Killaly Chapbook No. 3. (DenBoer A25)

21. LETHAL PAPER
Norwich: The Stone Press, 1975.
First edition, stapled illustrated wrappers, 28 pages, 5.25″ x 7″. Published as Stone Chapbooks No. 3. (DenBoer A28)

22. I AM A WEAPON
Marshall: Ox Head Press, 1975.
First edition, sewn printed wrappers, 24 pages, 4.25″ x 6.5″, 400 copies. Published as Ox Head No. 13. (DenBoer A29)

23. EXERCISES IN MEMORIZING MYSELF
Berkeley: Twowindows Press, 1976
First edition, stapled printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 500 copies. (DenBoer A31)

24. MY DEFINITION OF POETRY
Berkeley: Twowindows Press, 1976
First edition, broadside, 4.5” x 11.5”. Issued as a promotional broadside for Blazek’s collection EXERCISES IN MEMORIZING MYSELF. (DenBoer A32)

25. EDIBLE FIRE
Milwaukee: Morgan Press, 1978
First edition, paperback, 7.5″ x 11″, 500 copies. Published as Hey Lady Supplement No. 26. (DenBoer A33)

Douglas Blazek

One of the instigators of the “Mimeo Revolution“, poet and editor Douglas Blazek is considered a force in the American poetry “underground” of the 1960s. Early in his career, Blazek published hundreds of poems in dozens of books, chapbooks, and little magazines that, in Blazek’s words, “contributed to the ferment of the Sixties.” Blazek also founded and edited the magazine Ole and the small press Open Skull. As an editor, Blazek published work by Charles Bukowski, Robert Crumb, d.a. levy, and other non-establishment writers.

As described in the introduction to James DenBoer’s A Bibliography of the Published Works of Douglas Blazek: 1961-2001 (Glass Eye Books, 2003), Blazek is noteworthy for his prolific early period (1964-1978), followed by an extended hiatus. Between 1978 and 2009, Blazek published only one book, but this was also a time of intense creativity, as the poet focused on rewriting all his previously published work. The first book-length results of this labor, Aperture Mirror and Gutting Cats in Search of Fiddles, were published in 2012 by Edition Muta with more titles forthcoming.

The following indexes examine work during Blazek’s “prolific early period”.

Douglas Blazek Checklist
- - Section A: Books and Broadsides
    Section B: Contributions to Books & Other Publications
    Section C: Contributions to Periodicals
    Section D: Publications Edited and Published
    Section E: Periodicals Edited and Published
- - - - 1. Ole (Nos. 1-8, 1964-1967)
      - 2. Open Skull (No. 1, 1967)

References consulted:

Clay, Steven and Rodney Phillips. A SECRET LOCATION ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE: Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980
New York: New York Public Library / Granary Books, 1998

DenBoer, James. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PUBLISHED WORK OF DOUGLAS BLAZEK, 1961-2001
Florence: Glass Eye Books, 2003

Dorbin, Sanford. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969

Fox, Hugh. THE LIVING UNDERGROUND: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry
East Lansing: Ghost Dance Press, 1969

Krumhansl, Aaron. A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PRIMARY PUBLICATIONS OF CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1999

Taylor, Kent and Alan Horvath. LOOKING FOR D.A. LEVY (RANDOM SIGHTINGS): THE D.A. LEVY BIBLIOGRAPHY, Volume 1 [1963-1966]
Vancouver: Kirpan Press, 2006

Taylor, Kent and Alan Horvath. LOOKING FOR D.A. LEVY (RANDOM SIGHTINGS): THE D.A. LEVY BIBLIOGRAPHY, Volume 2 [1967-1968]
Vancouver: Kirpan Press, 2008

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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d.a. levy

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
  - - 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

· 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.

verdant press