: d.a.levy republications :
06/2022 ~ Revised 05/2025
all levy excerpts available seperately
or with any receipt-book
all proceeds to publishing & distribution materials
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$BETWEENTHEHIGHWAY$
D.A. LEVY
REPUBLICATION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
i reject all copyrights since i cannot
consider poetry as a business trans-
action - that doesn't mean i don't
like $$$ - it doesn't mean i give
free readings - i just think as long
as i'm living the poetry happens &
i'm not going to turn my happenings
into a business planned for mass
consumption - patrons support
poets or god (i.e. the universe)
supports poets - not govts or
the public . . .
—d.a. levy, Kaleidoscope,
“d.a. levy memorial issue,” 1968,
edited by Jim Sorcic
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE:
Materials for these republications of
d.a. levy’s work primarily came from
Kent State University Special Collections,
Cleveland State University Special
Collections, the anthology
“ukanhavyrfuckincitibak” (GHOST
PRESS, edited by Tom Kryss and r.j.s.,
1968), and Alan Horvath’s Kirpan
Press republications. Wherever
possible, I tried to use first editions
or editions published during levy’s
lifetime. In some cases, such as with
Kibbutz in the Sky and THE NORTH
AMERICAN BOOK OF THE DEAD,
these republications are the first
instance of a series of books being
published in their completeness. Much
of levy’s work has been republished
across dozens of small presses,
including Quixote Press, GHOST
PRESS, ghost pony press, verdant
press, Kirpan Press, and Between
the Shadows. As such, entries in
this bibliography do not cover the
entire publication history of any text.
This bibliography only covers materials
printed by betweenthehighway press.
For a full bibliography, see Alan
Horvath’s “looking for d.a. levy
(Random Sightings).” This
bibliography is based on James
Lowell’s “A Preliminary Checklist
of the Writings of d.a. Levy (1942-
1968)” (The Serif [Kent State
University Special Collections], Vol. 8,
No. 4). Started in 2002 and carefully
revised with the collaboration of Kent
Taylor and many of levy’s friends,
the Kirpan Press bibliography is
exhaustive of levy’s individual
publications, including material he
printed, material printed by other
publishers, and anthologies. “Random
Sightings” can only be supplem-
ented by the verdant press biblio-
graphy of materials levy published
in periodicals.
betweenthehighway press repub-
lications are relegated to the lexical
work of d.a. levy and represent
only a sampling of his material.
Visual material is accessible through
Cleveland State University’s
digitized holdings and the anthology
edited by Ingrid Swanberg: “ZEN
CONCRETE & etc.” visual materials
include the Cleveland Prints Series
(Renegade Press, 1964), THE
EGYPTIAN STROBOSCOPE (7
flowers press, 1966), VISUALIZED
PRAYERS & HYMN FOR THE
AMERICAN $GOD$ (Renegade
Press, 1966), SCARAB (1966), the
madison poems and the madison
collages (Quixote Press, 1968),
ZEN CONCRETE: TRANSLATIONS
& A NEW INTERPRETATION OF
BUDDHIST DOCTRINES (blew-
ointment press, October 1968),
and THE TIBETAN STROBOSCOPE
(Ayizan Press, 1968).
Illustrations for these republications
are sourced from Aubrey Beardsley’s
vignettes in Le Morte D’Arthur, head-
pieces for Henry Reicher, and—
who could forget—Salome’s flowers.
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WORK PUBLISHED IN
PERIODICALS AND
ANTHOLOGIES:
INDIVIDUAL PUBLICATIONS:
MANIFESTOS:
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read about d.a.levy and the Cleveland Literary Revolution here
read some d.a.levy here
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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
- The basis for a full biography, this paper investigates how levy’s concrete poetry and revolitionary aims develop out of Buddhist views and practice.
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Cleveland State University digitized materials
from Cleveland Undercovers (1964-65)
hear our excerpt here
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)
hear our excerpt here
from TOMBSTONE AS A LONELY CHARM #3 (1967-68)
hear our excerpt here
from SUBURBAN MONASTERY DEATH POEM (August 1968)
hear our excerpt here
from PROSE: on poetry in the wholesale culture & education system (1968, final)
if you are unable to pay, we do exchanges.
share an exchange idea!
betweenthehighway@gmail.com
or with any receipt-book
all proceeds to publishing & distribution materials
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
$BETWEENTHEHIGHWAY$
D.A. LEVY
REPUBLICATION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
i reject all copyrights since i cannot
consider poetry as a business trans-
action - that doesn't mean i don't
like $$$ - it doesn't mean i give
free readings - i just think as long
as i'm living the poetry happens &
i'm not going to turn my happenings
into a business planned for mass
consumption - patrons support
poets or god (i.e. the universe)
supports poets - not govts or
the public . . .
—d.a. levy, Kaleidoscope,
“d.a. levy memorial issue,” 1968,
edited by Jim Sorcic
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE:
Materials for these republications of
d.a. levy’s work primarily came from
Kent State University Special Collections,
Cleveland State University Special
Collections, the anthology
“ukanhavyrfuckincitibak” (GHOST
PRESS, edited by Tom Kryss and r.j.s.,
1968), and Alan Horvath’s Kirpan
Press republications. Wherever
possible, I tried to use first editions
or editions published during levy’s
lifetime. In some cases, such as with
Kibbutz in the Sky and THE NORTH
AMERICAN BOOK OF THE DEAD,
these republications are the first
instance of a series of books being
published in their completeness. Much
of levy’s work has been republished
across dozens of small presses,
including Quixote Press, GHOST
PRESS, ghost pony press, verdant
press, Kirpan Press, and Between
the Shadows. As such, entries in
this bibliography do not cover the
entire publication history of any text.
This bibliography only covers materials
printed by betweenthehighway press.
For a full bibliography, see Alan
Horvath’s “looking for d.a. levy
(Random Sightings).” This
bibliography is based on James
Lowell’s “A Preliminary Checklist
of the Writings of d.a. Levy (1942-
1968)” (The Serif [Kent State
University Special Collections], Vol. 8,
No. 4). Started in 2002 and carefully
revised with the collaboration of Kent
Taylor and many of levy’s friends,
the Kirpan Press bibliography is
exhaustive of levy’s individual
publications, including material he
printed, material printed by other
publishers, and anthologies. “Random
Sightings” can only be supplem-
ented by the verdant press biblio-
graphy of materials levy published
in periodicals.
betweenthehighway press repub-
lications are relegated to the lexical
work of d.a. levy and represent
only a sampling of his material.
Visual material is accessible through
Cleveland State University’s
digitized holdings and the anthology
edited by Ingrid Swanberg: “ZEN
CONCRETE & etc.” visual materials
include the Cleveland Prints Series
(Renegade Press, 1964), THE
EGYPTIAN STROBOSCOPE (7
flowers press, 1966), VISUALIZED
PRAYERS & HYMN FOR THE
AMERICAN $GOD$ (Renegade
Press, 1966), SCARAB (1966), the
madison poems and the madison
collages (Quixote Press, 1968),
ZEN CONCRETE: TRANSLATIONS
& A NEW INTERPRETATION OF
BUDDHIST DOCTRINES (blew-
ointment press, October 1968),
and THE TIBETAN STROBOSCOPE
(Ayizan Press, 1968).
Illustrations for these republications
are sourced from Aubrey Beardsley’s
vignettes in Le Morte D’Arthur, head-
pieces for Henry Reicher, and—
who could forget—Salome’s flowers.
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WORK PUBLISHED IN
PERIODICALS AND
ANTHOLOGIES:
- INTERMISSION (November 9, 1961)
- WILD HORSES (Abraxas 44/45, 1964)
- GREAT MAN SLEEPING IN A CLOSET (7 flowers press, 1966) [republished: ukanhavyrfuckincitibak, 1968] [written 1965-66]
- letter to lady berge’ (blewointment, Vol. 5, No. 1, January 1967) [written 2/27/1966]
- LIGHT ON, THE OLD TEST (DO-IT!, No. 1, 1966) [republished by levy in 1967 and ukanhavyrfuckincitibak, 1968)
- if you can break an iron angel’s wings (cleveland bridges) [Hika, Vol. 28, No. 3, Kenyon College, 1966]
- roses that (ukanhavyrfuckincitibak, 1968) [written 1966]
- THE TIBETAN NOTES (SEPT/ 7th 1966)
- BERET (SPANISH FLEYE, 1966) [republished: ukanhavyrfuckincitibak, 1968] [performed: La Cave 1966]
- poem for lama ginsberg (FREE LOVE PERIODICALLY, #1, 1967)
- variations on a short poem (Runcible Spoon, 1970) [ukanhavyrfuckincitibak, 1968]
- notes/ variations on a short poem (FAT FROG, No. 1, 1967)
- what can i say? (THE FLASH OF PASADENA, No. 5, 1967) [republished: FREE LOVE PERIODICALLY, No. 2, June 1967]
- angela (ukanhavyrfuckincitibak, 1968) [previously: burning water]
- Jaywalking Blues (ukanhavyrfuckincitibak, 1968)
- REBIRTH BLUES (INTRANSIT, 1968) [republished: Kirpan Press]
- NEW YEAR (October 1968) (DAVKA, Vol. 1, No. 1, December 1970) [republished: A Ten Year Harvest: Third Decennial Reader, 1977]
- WARRIOR’S REST (TOUCAN, Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 1968) [ukanhavyrfuckincitibak, 1968]
- Letter From An Invisible Greek (Litmus, the d.a. levy issue, November 1968) [Quixote, Vol. 4, No. 6, March 1969]
- barking rabbit (falling down press, 1976) [previously: The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle, nola express, campfires of the resistance, unmuzzled ox, and the box lunch travel-og of fremont gulch]
INDIVIDUAL PUBLICATIONS:
- FRAGMENTS OF A SHATTERED MIRROR (renegade press, February 1963)
- More Withdrawed or Less (renegade press, February 1963) [second edition: September 1963]
- Variation on Flip (renegade press, February 1963)
- IN Group (Hors Commerce Press: “3 One Act Plays,” 1964)
- THE NORTH AMERICAN BOOK OF THE DEAD: PART 1 &2 (FREE LANCE PRESS, 1965) [revision republished: 7 flowers press, 1966]
- The Slow Death of Becoming Other People (ukanhavyrfuckincitibak, 1968)
- Cleveland undercovers (7 Flowers Press, 1966)
- CLEVELAND: THE RECTAL EYE VISIONS (press : today : niagara, 1966) [ukanhavyrfuckincitibak, 1968]
- R.E. Vision #8 for W.E. Wyatt (POETRY NEWSLETTER, No. 11, 1966)
- R.E. Vision #10 (ENTRAILS, Vol. 3, February/March 1967)
- R.E. Vision #2 (RADICAL AMERICA, Vol. 2, No. 6, December 1968)
- R.E. Vision #8 Part II - for Art Kleps (RADICAL AMERICA, Vol. 3, No. 4, August 1969)
- THE EGYPTIAN STROBOSCOPE [“THE YEAR OF COMING FORTH BY DAY . . .”] (7 flowers press, 1966) [second edition: grass coin, 1967]
- Kibbutz in the Sky (7 flowers press, 1967: Books 1 & 2) [republished: ukanhavyrfuckincitibak, 1968)
- ONE DEATH IN THE LIFE OF JULIE: POEM FOR JULIE (grass coin, 1967)
- THE PRAPS I SERIES (PRAPS (I): CONGRESS, No. 1, 1967) (PRAPS I (Three): CONGRESS, No. 2, 1967) (ASYLUM, No. 4, March 1968) [full series republishined: ukanhavyrfuckincitibak, 1968)
- TOMBSTONE AS A LONELY CHARM (press : today : niagara, Part 1: 1967, Parts 2 & 3: 1968)
- THE BEGINNING OF SUNNY DAWN (GHOSTflower Press, March 1968) [republished with RED LADY: Open Skull Press, 1969)
- RED LADY (Open Skull Press, 1968) [PARA-SHAKTI PRESS, 1969]
- songs for dead children [x2] (black rabbit press, 1969) [ukanhavyrfuckincitibak, 1968]
- The Evolution of Comparative Literature (1968) [broadside republished: Quixote Press, “the madison collages,” 1969 and again by OFFENSE FUND, 1975]
- SUBURBAN MONASTERY DEATH POEM (ZERO EDITION, 1968)
- PROSE: on poetry in the wholesale culture & education system (Gunrunner Press, 1968)
MANIFESTOS:
- The Cleveland Manifesto of Poetry (Principles behind the writings of 6 Cleveland Poets) (Asphodel Press, June 1964)
- CEMENT FUCK [Introduction] (cleveland OHO, 1966) [renegade press]
- THE PARA-CONCRETE MANIFESTO (TLALOC, No. 13, 1966) [republished as broadside: 7 flowers press,1966 and ukanhavyrfuckincitibak, 1968]
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read about d.a.levy and the Cleveland Literary Revolution here
read some d.a.levy here
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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
- The basis for a full biography, this paper investigates how levy’s concrete poetry and revolitionary aims develop out of Buddhist views and practice.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Cleveland State University digitized materials
from Cleveland Undercovers (1964-65)
hear our excerpt here
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)
hear our excerpt here
from TOMBSTONE AS A LONELY CHARM #3 (1967-68)
hear our excerpt here
from SUBURBAN MONASTERY DEATH POEM (August 1968)
hear our excerpt here
from PROSE: on poetry in the wholesale culture & education system (1968, final)
if you are unable to pay, we do exchanges.
share an exchange idea!
betweenthehighway@gmail.com