Cleveland's late '60s beat poet, d.a. levy, seems immortal. He gets more mentions these days, perhaps, than when he was alive and walking among us. After missing WVIZ's much-talked-about portrait of the poet several times, I finally caught it on a reprised Applause segment a week or two ago, and it was worth waiting for, a moving video poem to a sadly tormented soul. I'll admit that my once-tepid interest in levy, who took his own life, has been sparked a little by our blogging colleague Mark Kuhar, whose Deep Cleveland project places levy at the center of everything. But Mark really ought to add to his site a link to this eye-opening interview he did with the webzine 3am Magazine, which I stumbled upon recently. "...what was most appealing to me was the fact that he was from the streets of Cleveland. And he didn't leave. The city was his inspiration and persecution," Mark notes of levy, going on to argue that in this, he was a fitting successor to Hart Crane and Langston Hughes, a couple of more famous native bards made good...
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