::: 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)
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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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