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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1449 Collections and/or Records:

Broadside #7:[Books That Have Been Banned] / Wayzgoose Press; Joyce J; Dante; Miller H., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-00469-481
Scope and Contents

Lists authors whose books have been burned or banned from Confusius to the present. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Broadside No.9: Germany, 1993

 Item — Folder 73: [Barcode: 31858072538089]
Identifier: CC-34958-36673
Scope and Contents

The print depicts a stylized broken arm with a fractured Swatstika arm band with the hand aflame. The smoke from the fire consists of a political address in 1993 set in bold type by Helmut Kohl, the leader of Germany dealing with solving the world's problems with money. This overlays a text with fainter type dealing with protection of the environment. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Broadside of the Month Club: The American in Me. No.12/Dec / Penelope Houston., 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-44516-46666
Scope and Contents

Note that one cardboard folder houses all the Broadsides of the Month. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Brount: An Idyll / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Gillanders, Robin., 1995

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Identifier: CC-34976-36693
Scope and Contents

Brount was the name of Robespierre's dog. This print is a reproduction of one of the pages in the book of the same title. The text of the caption is taken from Hector Fleischmann's "Robespierre and the Women He Loved." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Brount: An Idyll / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Gillanders, Robin., 1995

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Identifier: CC-12937-13229
Scope and Contents

The short texts concern Robespierre and his dog Brount. The photographic illustrations are of Brount's dish, with his name inscribed on it, in various interior and garden settings. The Brount ceramic dish was made by David Ballentyne, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Buchstaben Halde Konsonantenn-Akkumulation [Letter Heap Accumulation of Consonants] / Peter Daniel., 1991-1992

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Identifier: CC-27737-28857
Scope and Contents

Skillfully cut, glued together, styrofoam Hebrew letters are stacked one on top of another in a random, pyramid shape. The letters may be a metaphor for victims of the Holocaust. The glass box could represent Kristelnacht, when the Nazis destroyed the glass windows of Jewish shops and burned Jewish books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991-1992

Buchstaben Halde Konsonantenn-Akkumulation [Letter Heap Accumulation of Consonants] / Peter Daniel., 1991 - 1992

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Identifier: CC-27737-28857
Scope and Contents

Skillfully cut, glued together, styrofoam Hebrew letters are stacked one on top of another in a random, pyramid shape. The letters may be a metaphor for victims of the Holocaust. The glass box could represent Kristelnacht, when the Nazis destroyed the glass windows of Jewish shops and burned Jewish books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991 - 1992

Buddhist 3rd Class Junkmail Oracle. No.1/Jue / da levy, editor ; Cunliffe D., 1967

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Identifier: CC-27309-27919
Scope and Contents

This issue carries the header, "The Buddhist 3rd Class Junkmail Oracle" and is the successor to "Swamp Erie Pipe Dream." It is stated that this first issue is dedicated to r.j.s. (poet, publisher and martyr) and to paul robinson (folksinger). The cover collage was made from the prints of the Japanese artist Shiko Munakata. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[Burnt Book], 1995

 Item — Box 193: [Barcode: 31858072459633]
Identifier: CC-05717-5824
Scope and Contents

The scorched, mutilated book wrapped in an incomplete wire grid is Nicastri's visual metaphor for the Holocaust and the Nazi burning of Jewish books. The wooden pine box without nails signifies the Jewish coffin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Bush Special Playing Cards, 2008

 Item — Box 213: [Barcode: 31858072459310]
Identifier: CC-50809-71887
Scope and Contents

Each except tor the Joker is collaged with images of coffins draped with the America flag containing dead American soldiers from the Iraq war. The Joker card is collaged with a portrait of George Bush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

But Pleasure Are Like Poppies Spread / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988

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Identifier: CC-12181-12405
Scope and Contents

The image on the inside of the card is a colored photograph of marching Nazi Brown shirts with some carrying red swastika flags. The caption to the poem reads, "or banners in the beds of Roehm's Brown shirts." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Caco-Colo Gassic / Perrone, Charles., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-03886-3959
Scope and Contents

Perrone, a Brazilian concrete poetry scholar made this piece as a take-off on Decio Pignatari's "Totem para Decio Pignartari," 1957-1979. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Calypso / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Gerahy, Laura., 1996

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Identifier: CC-35259-36993
Scope and Contents

The narrative of the recto side of the cards deals with Homer's Ulysses and his encounter with the fairy, Calypso. The narrative of the verso side of the cards deals with a contemporary naval incident involving the boarding of a French fishing boat, La Calypso, by the British navy. The illustrations on each page and the folder are line drawings of sea creatures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Campaign '72 / Kriwet, Ferdinand., 1974

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Identifier: CC-27305-27869
Scope and Contents

The soft cover book presents excerpts from magazines, newspaper, TV, ephemera and photographs of the 1972 Democratic and Republican conventions, held on Miami Beach, for the American presidential election. This election was the victory of Nixon over McGovern. All illustrations are fully documented. Several images were captured from video screens. A transcript of the proceedings, which is the subject of the three records, is found at the back of the book in German and English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Capital, n. A republican crown / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Burckhardt, Lucius., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-13005-13297
Scope and Contents

The image is a hat in the style worn during the French revolution placed on top of a basket decorated with flowers. Finlay captions the image with a quote from Gerd Neumann's book, "Callimachus" (1981). "Seen in this way, the lost CAPITAL, is an envoy; a parody of the now solely burlesque treatment of history in this post-modernism and, as a consequence, a double negation as well, yet without the desirable positive change in values, at least from the perspective of making history." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981