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Rabbi Levi Levertov said the sign was of little material value, but that damaging a religious display was disturbing.

“It’s an attack on an entire community,” Levertov said.

Moreover, major poets of the late 1960s and the ’70s wrote overtly political poetry: Adrienne Rich, Denise Levertov, Robert Duncan and Robert Lowell — to name a few.

Over the years, he sought outsiders and underground voices, and his little press gave early exposure to writers who would come to define a generation: Norman Mailer, Denise Levertov and, especially, the freewheeling Beats.

Denise Levertov, who regarded the line break as “a form of punctuation additional to the punctuation that forms part of the logic of completed thoughts,” once wrote that the “line-end pause” is “equal to half a comma.”