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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1449 Collections and/or Records:

Elegiac Inscription / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Andrew, John; McQueen, Michael., 1995

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Identifier: CC-12941-13233
Scope and Contents

The photgraph depicts an inscription carved on black Belgian Marble. It recounts the attempt to create a new Republican Calendar during the French Revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Elegy for Whimbrel and Petrel: petrol / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Gardner, Ian., 1971

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Identifier: CC-13340-13641
Scope and Contents

The image in shades of brown-grays, tipped to the inside of the card, depicts a sailing ship with hoists resembling bird beaks. The foreground shows the sea with smudges resembling an oil slick. In the background is a shore line. No birds appear in t perhaps because petrol leaks from an oil tanker have contaminated their feeding environment. Whimbrel and Petrel are sea shore birds which might be rendered extinct because of lack of attention to oil spills - hence the use of "Elegy" in the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Ellis Island / Horrigan, Terry., 1995

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Identifier: CC-09893-10089
Scope and Contents

In this book, Horrigan reviews the medical inspections and legislation affecting steerage passengers immigrating to America from Europe 1892-1954 through Ellis Island. The letter-codes of suspected or real illnesses in the immigrants were written in chalk on their lapels. A listing of the codes and meanings in a calligraphic text done by Ann Miller are printed on a three page fold-out. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Endless Threshold / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1992

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Identifier: CC-09330-9516
Scope and Contents

Includes poem relating to Marvin Sackner (page 73), "I Steal" that begins with the following passage: Scavaging's the way I make my buck. Pick my way thru the garbage of the rich for cardboard, fabric-sampler folders, odd papers, plastics. Paint over them. Send them to a man who collects things like that. Just enough to pay for my hotel pad. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Entrails. No.2/Sep-Oct / Gene Bloom, editor ; Berardi M ; Blazek D ; Major C ; Richmond S ; Bloom G ; Elder G ; Bukowski C ; DelPino L ; Miller B ; Tucker H ; Briggs H ; Rufus S ; Kupferberg T ; Sanders E., 1966

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Identifier: CC-51306-72395
Scope and Contents

This issue is dedicated to and in the memory of Lenny Bruce who died of audience starvation. Fuck em Lenny..for they do not know what they did. The cover was designed by Lawrence Cook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Erratum / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1978

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Identifier: CC-12147-12371
Scope and Contents

This poem is an attack on the intelligence of the British Arts Council, presumably relating to a Finlay proposal or a grant request. The poem reads, For 'mind' read 'void'. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Essay Packs / Holzer, Jenny., 1980

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Identifier: CC-49660-70713
Scope and Contents

The typographic appearance of the broadsides shows poorly printed typesetting of the texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Essence: International Networking Culture / Held Jjr ; Finlay E ; Welch C ; spence p ; Groh K ; Tipping R ; Cleveland B ; Padin C ; Stake C ; Petasz P ; Cohen R ; Gaglione B ; Morandi E ; Dogfish ; Strada G ; Tisma A ; Dellafiora D ; Kamperelic D ; Kamperelic R ; Collins P ; Bogdanovic N ; Blurr B ; Barbot G ; A1 Waste Paper ; Bates K ; Baroni V ; Maggi R ; Ruch G ; Crozier R ; Segay S., 1995

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Identifier: CC-29547-30915
Scope and Contents

The exhibition was organized by Neil Degney around the theme of Shozo Shimamoto's B'book Burning Edict." One hundred participants from 22 countries sent networking material for the exhibition. The works consisted of correspondence art and personal statements. "Essence reveals both a universal personkind and a global divergence of ideas and circumstance." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Estuary / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1997

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Identifier: CC-35375-37110
Scope and Contents

The poem lists names of ships along with names of major oil refinery companies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Et in Arcadia Ego / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Andrew, John., 1981

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Identifier: CC-12770-13035
Scope and Contents

Depicts a carved in stone image of an armored vehicle in a landscape scene with an additional caption, "After Nicholas Poussin." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981