William Levy (born January 10, 1939), known as the Talmudic Wizard of Amsterdam and Dr. Doo-Wop, is the author of such works as The Virgin Sperm Dancer, Wet Dreams, Certain Radio Speeches of Ezra Pound and Natural Jewboy.
Before leaving the U.S. in the autumn of 1966 aboard the R.M.S Queen Mary, Mr. Levy attended the University of Maryland and Temple University and taught in the literature department at Shippensburg State College, in Pennsylvania. In the sixties and seventies, he was founder and chief-editor of many magazines such as: The Insect Trust Gazette, International Times, Suck, and The Fanatic. Recently, he served as European Editor for American glossy fanzines High Times and Penthouse Magazine and as an associate editor of Amsterdam zines Het Gewicht, Ins and Outs, La Linea and Atom Club. Mr. Levy has been a regular contributor to Andrei Codrescu's Exquisite Corpse and Libido and is currently publisher of Transactions of the Invisible Language Society series. His meditation play Europe in Flames was also featured at the Festival of New Radio in New York. In 1998, Mr. Levy was awarded the Erotic Oscar for writing at London's Sex Maniac's Ball. Mr. Levy's alter_ego, Dr. Doo Wop, can be heard weekly spinning groovy music across Amsterdam's airwaves.
Poetry and Pensees (http://www.3ammagazine.com/poetry/2004/oct/levy.html)
Three Poems (http://www.corpse.org/issue-5/burning-bush/levy.htm)
Dear George W Bush (http://www.corpse.org/issue-9/poesy/levy.htm)
Impossible: The Otto Muehl Story (New York: Barany Artists, 2001)
The Virgin Sperm Dancer (http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?qwork=7054099&wtit=virgin%20sperm%20dancer&ptit=The%20virgin%20sperm%20dancer&pauth=Gordon%2C%20Ginger%2C%20and%20Levy%2C%20William&pisbn=&pqty=1&pqtynew=0&pbest=149%2E95&matches=1&qsort=r)
Wet Dreams
Certain Radio Speeches of Ezra Pound
Jeremiad Chants
Natural Jewboy
Voicings and Transmissions
Radio Art
Blood
Rape (http://www.nthposition.com/rape.php)
An Introduction to Political Porno in Europe
A Vilna Legend
The Night Before Charisma
Billy's Holiday
Viagra Blues
Is There Sex Over Forty?
Never Knew Never From Less: Secondary Raw Materials of Harry Hoogstraten (http://www.3ammagazine.com/artarchives/2002-sep/harry-hoogstraten.html)
ZOCK: The Outlaw Manifesto of the Century (http://www.corpse.org/issue-11/manifestos/levy.html)
Death of a Gunslinger: An Obituary on Ed Dorn for America (http://www.corpse.org/issue-4/burning-bush/dorn.htm)
William Levy (born January 10, 1939), known as the Talmudic Wizard of Amsterdam and Dr. Doo-Wop, is the author of such works as The Virgin Sperm Dancer, Wet Dreams, Certain Radio Speeches of Ezra Pound and Natural Jewboy.
Levy attended the University of Maryland and Temple University and taught in the literature department at Shippensburg State College, in Pennsylvania.
Levy has been a regular contributor to Andrei Codrescu's Exquisite Corpse and Libido and is currently publisher of Transactions of the Invisible Language Society series.
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