::: d.a.levy excerpts :::
06-17-2022


      peace & awareness are
      like two small birds
      trying to leave the planet
      because they are tired of dying
      i’m not advocating anything
            — levy, SUBURBAN MONASTERY DEATH POEM


litany of the green lion: returning the concrete to the concrete and the concrete to the grass, or how grass conquers the necropolis in d.a.levy’s Cleveland undercovers
- puddlethumb attempts to make visible the cloud bridges
- product of an honors thesis, which will develop into the framing for a full biography and anthology on d.a.levy
- this paper investigates how levy’s concrete poetry and revolutionary, anti-capitalist politics develop out of his Buddhist perspectives and practices



from Cleveland Undercovers (1964-65)

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from NORTH AMERICAN BOOK OF THE DEAD  (1965)


from PARA-CONCRETE MANIFESTO  (1966)


from prayers & hymn for the american $god$  (1966)


from Kibbutz in the Sky (late 1966)

hear our excerpt here


from praps (1967)

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from TOMBSTONE AS A LONELY CHARM #3  (1967-68)

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from SUBURBAN MONASTERY DEATH POEM  (August 1968)

hear our excerpt here


from PROSE: on poetry in the wholesale culture & education system  (1968, final)




excerpts in progress from... More Withdrawed or Less, zen concrete, Marrahwannah Quarterly, The Buddhist 3rd Class Junkmail Oracle, Silver Cesspool, Fragments of a Shattered Mirror, Litany of the Green Lion, Tibetan Stroboscope, and more!



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