[Caption Title]: There Seems to Be Some Discrepancy; or, Why is RJS in Jail? Pertaining to the Religious Persecution of R.J. Sigmond

LEVY, D.A. (R.J. Sigmund)

Verlag: no publisher, [Cleveland, 1967

Beschreibung

First edition. Quarto. Three corner-stapled sheets measuring 8½" x 11". Two flattened old folds for mailing, modest toning and wear, very good or better. A plea from Levy and others to help a recently imprisoned friend. According to p.[2], Sigmund (sometimes spelled "Sigmond," as here) offered a place to stay for anyone who needs it, and 30 people showed up. To quote the publication: "After several days he got fed up, but it took over a week before he paid the rent on another apartment and told everyone to go. They went and were arrested. Unfortunately several of these people were minors and runaways. They said they had stayed at r.j.'s and the state immediately picked up the charges. After all, r.j.s. was a poet & they had to shut him up somehow." Levy paints the act as a religious one, taken with full knowledge that it could cost Sigmund, and the arrest as a shameful act by the city. Sigmund was, according an article quoted on the first leaf, a "prophet of the neo-American church whose holy sacraments are LSD and marijuana"; Levy writes that Sigmund's goal was to help people already doing drugs direct their experiences "toward a religious context." However, Levy clearly refutes the reports of orgies being held at his apartment, writing "i doubt he had time & he certainly would have invited me to read some tantric-hindu texts." According to this document, Sigmund was sentenced to 6 months in the County Workhouse; p.[2] prints his workhouse address, gives instructions on what to send, and prints the addresses of two major Cleveland newspapers. Pp.[3-4] print Levy's poem "what can i say?", dedicated to Sigmund. A touching and powerful fundraising document from the 1960s Cleveland counterculture, Levy's circle specifically. Levy seems to have published this plea and accompanying poem in *Free Love Periodically* No. 2 (Cleveland: Free Love Press, [circa 1967]), and we note one copy in Levy's papers at Kent State, but we have been unable to locate any copies of this independently printed edition, likely mailed to friends, in *OCLC* or the trade. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 540915

Bibliografische Details

Titel: [Caption Title]: There Seems to Be Some ...

Verlag: no publisher, [Cleveland

Erscheinungsdatum: 1967

Einband: Softcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1. Auflage