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| Illustration by d.a.levy for "Permit Me Voyage" by Adelaide Simon (1963) |
The Cleveland Manifesto of Poetry was published from Jim Lowell's
Asphodel Bookshop in 1964, a year after the bookstore opened at 465 The
Arcade. It prints statements by Russell Atkins, d. a. levy, Russell
Salamon, Adelaide Simon, Jau Billera, and Kent Taylor. The statements
still seem relevant today, especially those of Atkins and levy, whose
manifesto begins "To write surface poems with the appearance of
artificial flowers in order to communicate with persons by forcing them
to resort to instinctive methods of understanding." It is a beautiful
and surprising characterization of the concrete tendencies in levy's
poetry and bookmaking.
--considering today's Cleveland poetry scene, with a local reading just about every day and two on Saturdays, I'd say that by d.a. levy's standards, we're doing pretty good at "covering the city with lines"!
--but I do have to say, although I loved those old-fashioned manual typewriters and mimeograph stencils back in the day, our printing sure looks a lot nicer now--
(from the Spineless and Stapled blog.)
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