Reality Jew
[Cleveland]: [1964]. Typescript, two pages, 4to (11 x 8.5 inches). With mailing folds. Two inked corrections. Item #405989
Published in 'The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle' and anthologized in 'The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry,' ed. Alan Kaufman, New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1999. This typescript shows two corrections made in levy's hand – adding "in cleveland" at the end of the sub-title and changing the last words of the second stanza – that subsequently appeared in the published editions: See 'The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle,' edited by Mike Golden, NY: Seven stories Press, 1999, p. 199."
Original manuscript and typescript material by the famed, and infamous, Cleveland poet is scarce, with only two pieces appearing at auction in the past 50 years.
Price: $2,000.00