Edited by Mike Golden
The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle collects d.a. levy's poetry, his collages—in both color and black-and-white—and other examples of his art, in a splendid large-format celebration of levy's unique contribution.
A visual artist, and an important figure in the concrete poetry movement, levy was also an activist and mystic who either committed suicide or was murdered at the age of twenty-six in East Cleveland. This occurred after two and a half years of intense media coverage, police harassment and court trials, and just as he was starting to be recognized as one of the most important geniuses of his generation.
With an investigative essay on Levy's life and mysterious death by Mike Golden.
d.a. levy (1942-1968) was an underground poet and publisher from Cleveland. He is the author of The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle: The Art and Poetry of d.a. levy. He died, under mysterious circumstances, at the age of twenty-six.
A poet, journalist, novelist, filmmaker, and award-winning playwright and screenwriter, MIKE GOLDEN is the editor and publisher of Smoke Signals, an alternative literary magazine, and he is the author of The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle: The Art and Poetry of d.a. levy. His essay on d. a. levy, Portrait of a Young Man Trying to Eat the Sun, received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for narrative film development. He has spent the last several years covering the attempt to reopen the investigation into Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. Golden lives in New York.