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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1449 Collections and/or Records:

for a lifetime of shooting - buy a gun! / Goswell, Joan Iversen., 2003

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Identifier: CC-41447-43432
Scope and Contents

The image depicts Attorney General John Ashcroft, holding a rifle and sitting on a large pile of bullets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

For Jack Kerouac: Poems on His Death / Finch, Peter, editor ; Cobbing B ; Hollo A ; Finch P., 1987

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Identifier: CC-11325-11541
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Second revised edition that was originally published as Second Aeon Booklet Series No.11 in 1970. The sound poem by Cobbing is a phonetic text using Kerouac's name. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

For Klaus Werner / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1991

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Identifier: CC-10844-11054
Scope and Contents

This poem is a proposal for the text of a stone sculpture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

For the Named and the Unnameable: An Alphabet Garden / Samuels, Diane., 1997

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Identifier: CC-31659-33163
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This book was a proposal submitted to the Grafeneck Memorial Committee in Germany as a garden design. Its intent was to memorialize the 10,654 disabled people killed by the Nazis in this institution in 1940. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Forever Worship the Second Coming, 1968

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Identifier: CC-23190-23628
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by Tom Kyyss. r.j.s. stands for Robert J. Sigmond, a poet who at age 19 years was incarcerated by the Cleveland authorities for six months because of using marijuana. d.a.levy's poem in this book, "Indictment of the City of Cleveland for Contributing to the Delinquency of Minors" describes that episode. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

form + zweck. No.13., 1996

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Identifier: CC-29808-31187
Scope and Contents

This issue is concerned with the attack on the culture of the word and growing illiteracy. The periodical is organized into the following themes: group, connection, element, grammar, text, context, culture, understanding, maintaining and condition. It is illustrated with black and white photographs of cultural and political significance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

[Four] Detached Sentences on Revolution / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1983

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Identifier: CC-11910-12132
Scope and Contents

The texts relate to Finlay's dispute with the tax collectors in his region. Finlay's book on prints 1963-1997 depicts the prints in black on a grey background. The prints here are printed in red and black. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

four minutes to midnight. No.1/Aug / Kevin Lo, John Stuart, editors ; Lo K ; Beckett S ; Gleason T., 2004

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Identifier: CC-46750-49482
Scope and Contents

This is the PDF file of this issue that has also been downloaded from the web site and printed; the first edition is out of print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Fourth Anniversary of the First Battle of Little Sparta / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12122-12346
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The subtitle is "February 4. Nothing." The caption reads, 'On the evening of the terrible day of the taking of the Bastille, Louis XVI contented himself with writing in the journal, to which he confided his daily impressions, the strange, incredible, impossible word, NOTHING!' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Free Lance, The. No.1-2 / Casper LeRoy Jordan, Russell Atkins, editors ; levy da ; Atkins R ; Kryss TL ; Billera J ; Cook G ; Simon A ; Kostelanetz R., 1968

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Identifier: CC-11452-11668
Scope and Contents

Mentions death of d.a. levy and includes a concrete poem as well as conventional poems by levy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Freibord: Die Konferenz Von Jalta/The Conference of Yalta. No.47-48 / Henri Chopin ; Chopin J., 1985

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Identifier: CC-11628-11844
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This is the ordinary edition of the periodical, Freibord No.47-48. The work was translated by Jean Chopin. The deluxe edition is also held by the Sackner Archive published in an edition of 26 copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Freiheit / Baroni, Vittore., 1980

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Identifier: CC-21177-21586
Scope and Contents

Also designated as Originalgrafik Serie FSS. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

French Poem / Morris, Stephen., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42530-44545
Scope and Contents

This work was first published in Gargantua, 1971. A classical figure of a sower is centered in a circle surrounded with the words Anarchy - Depravity - Sensuality. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004