Tombstone As a Lonely Charm (Parts I, II, & III) [Limited Edition]

  • Cleveland, OH: Falling Down Press, 1975
By D.A. Levy; Michael Schaefer [cover illus.]
Cleveland, OH: Falling Down Press, 1975. Very Good +. Cleveland, OH: Falling Down Press, 1968. A Stuck-in-Nowhere Reprint Limited to 100 copies. Octavo (23cm); publisher's blue-black card wrappers, upper cover adorned with a skeleton print by Michael Schaefer, rear cover with small collage of two yellow paper strips, "D.A. Levy" printed in red; [12]ll. printed mimeograph from typescript on rectos only; final leaf adorned with an original collage with rubber-stamp "Dead Fish Productions" along bottom edge. Collage glue a bit darkened, else a Very Good to Near Fine example.

Posthumous reissue of this three-part poem by the Cleveland underground poet D.A. Levy (1942-1968), who died by suicide at the age of twenty-six. The penultimate leaf of this pamphlet bears the faintly printed statement "This poem reprinted to make void bearable."

OCLC locates five copies of this edition as of October, 2025, at SUNY Buffalo, Delaware, Kent State, Utah State, and Wisconsin.

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