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levy, d.a., 1942-1968

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1942 October 29 - 1968 November 24

Parallel Names

  • Levy, D. A.
  • Levy, DA

Nationality

American

Found in 432 Collections and/or Records:

Polluted Lake Series, No. 10: Susan Under John Poem, 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-04297-4377
Scope and Contents

Edited by d.a.levy. This book has a concrete poem that depicts a sexual orgasm; another version was published by the poet in the Ohio City Series. The author subsequently wrote feminist critical texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Polluted Lake Series, No. 11: Sleep, 1965

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Identifier: CC-04334-4414
Scope and Contents

Edited by d.a.levy aka the author, Alan Denis. The letter "z" is repeated several times in varied typefaces to suggest snoring. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Polluted Lake Series, No. 12: Shadows Over Lake Erie, 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-04369-4451
Scope and Contents

Edited by d.a.levy. DagmaR [Polokovs] aka Mara was levy's common-in-law wife. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Practicing Up to be Human / Kearns, Lionel ; levy da., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-50348-71416
Scope and Contents

Kearns composes a poem dedicated to da levy written correctly in the text but misspelled in the title as d.a. levi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Purgatorio, 1964

 Item — Box 543: [Barcode: 31858072461068]
Identifier: CC-07664-7809
Scope and Contents

This poem, along with Reality Jew, was sent to Ted Berrigan, editor of the magazine "C," for possible publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Purgatory and Carousels (2nd Printing) / Billera, Jau ; levy da., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-24044-24494
Scope and Contents

This is the second printing by d.a. levy's press; the first printing had the imprint, The Free Lance Poets & Prose Workshop. The Renegade Press edition includes an abstract print and the cover that was made by levy. Billera had a Cleveland radio program on WCLV and editied "Podium" in the mid-1960's. Billera committed suicide in 1981 in his sealed automobile with the motor running from carbon monoxide poisoning. It is stored in a box labeled levy and Renegade Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Random Sightings (d.a. has left the building), 1999

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-48658-69690
Scope and Contents

The cover photograph is by Alan Horvath. Includes several poems and polemics against the Vietnam war as handwritten manuscripts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Random Sightings [Reprint], 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33510-35159
Scope and Contents

Several poems are word portraits of artists that include Francis Bacon, William Baziotes, James Ensor, Paul Gauguin, Turner, and Robert Motherwell. The book also includes reprints of levy's introductory essay to 306, 5 Cleveland Poems, you murders with your indifference, and the "IN" Group. The cover was designed by Alan Horvath, the publisher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Random Sightings (The Egyptian Stroboscope Sessions), 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-52257-73379
Scope and Contents

Most of the copies of the first printing in an edition of 108 copies were confiscated by the Cleveland Police in the notorious raid of Jim Lowell's book store in 1966. The second printing by grass coin publishing in 1967 had a different cover, a modified title page & did not contain an index section. This third posthumous printing presented here is a reproduction of the original, the unique page from the second edition as well as the original manuscript pages. The cover silkscreen of this third printing was done by Mike Schaefer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Random Sightings (With No One Around); letters from d.a. levy, 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-47224-49967
Scope and Contents

This book consists of letters in reproduction from d.a. levy to his friends. The originals were handwritten, typed, and mimeographed. In addition, several of levy's abstract expressionistic paintings are reproduced in color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Reality Stinks! , 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-07194-7335
Scope and Contents

Most of the text deals with Buddhist themes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967