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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1438 Collections and/or Records:

Pentacle / Sharkey, John J.., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-39466-41422
Scope and Contents

The poems deal with "black power" and discrimination. The accordion is sealed at the ends so that this book forms a book object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

[Pest Telephone], 2002

 Item — Box 162: [Barcode: 31858072458155]
Identifier: CC-39238-41184
Scope and Contents

The object is a decorated, old, wireless telephone. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Physical Language Laboratory: Stack the Deck. Gift / Leda Black., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33065-34690
Scope and Contents

The cards are Black's contribution to "Stack the Deck: 22 Artists Mark the Cards for Women's Health and Healing." They are the 7 of clubs, 7 of diamonds and the joker. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Picabia Series # 1 (Black) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988

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Identifier: CC-12500-12727
Scope and Contents

Includes the epithats "The French Attache is Paper Mache, Art Press is Part Cress, All that Glitters is not Aryan, Parisians Spoil the French, and The League of Rights Intrigues in Tights." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Picabia Series # 1 (Red) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988

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Identifier: CC-12499-12726
Scope and Contents

Includes the epithats "The French Attache is Paper Mache, Art Press is Part Cress, All that Glitters is not Aryan, Parisians Spoil the French, and The League of Rights Intrigues in Tights." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Picabia Series # 2 (Black) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988

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Identifier: CC-12491-12718
Scope and Contents

Includes the epithats, "Don't Put All Your Heads in One Basket, Spare the Blade and Spoil the Factions, and Don't Cast Your Revolutions before Swine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Picabia Series (2) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988

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Identifier: CC-12187-12411
Scope and Contents

The listing in Finlay's bibliographies indicates that the series contains three cards but this set has a duplicate, "Spare the Blade..." and is missing "Don't Cast Your Revolution..." On the other hand, another card of lighter stock paper that reproduces a comment on the verso of the cards is not cited in the bibliographies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Picabia Series # 2 (Red) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988

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Identifier: CC-12492-12719
Scope and Contents

Includes the epithats, "Don't Put All Your Heads in One Basket, Spare the Blade and Spoil the Factions, and Don't Cast Your Revolutions before Swine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Picasso to Plensa: A Century of Art from Spain / Ellen J. Landis, curator ; Picasso P ; Torres-Garcia J ; Jeffett W ; Stein G ; Miro J ; Rabascall J ; Miralda A ; Gris J ; Dali S ; Arp J ; Hausmann R ; Jean M ; Tapies A ; Saura A ; Equipo Cronica ; Grup De Treball ; Muntadas A ; Pazos C ; Plensa J., 2005 - 2006

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Identifier: CC-53617-291344
Scope and Contents

William Jeffett contributed a lenghy, enlightening essay entitled "Avant-Garde and Moderization" to this catalogue. Marvin Sackner was a co-speaker with Jeffett at the symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition," Tour de France/Florida" at the Frost Museum in January 2012 and Jeffetts donated this catalogue to the Sackner Archive. Of note is a photograph of Joan Rabascall's sculpture "Monument to Televison (1992) on page 80 of the essay. The Sackners agreed to lend this sculpture to the exhiibition but their professional art movers deemed it too fragile to travel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005 - 2006

Picpus: 7 - 9 Messidor An II de Republique / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995

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Identifier: CC-12940-13232
Scope and Contents

Lists names, ages and occupations of French people who died during days 7-9 of the tenth calendar month of the French Republic, Messidor June 20-July 19. The texts were presumably taken from their tombstones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Playbill: Def Poetry Jam on Broadway. ., 2002

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Identifier: CC-40119-42088
Scope and Contents

Nine individual poets read their works in this poetry slam with background music played by a DJ. The subjects covered political, racial, character building, nationalistic, feminist and social problems. The cast that included American, Hispanic, African and Asian-American artists were all award winning poets. The Sackners attended the performance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Pluroscopo: Concretismos y Pluralemas / Gomez, Alexis., 1977

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Identifier: CC-30828-32274
Scope and Contents

This is a magazine supplement to a newspaper, !Ahora! No.693, February 21, 1977. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Poem For Julie / levy, d.a. ; Roach M., 1967

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Identifier: CC-60488-56234
Scope and Contents The cover photograph was taken by Max Roach. At the time of this poem, Julie was Julie Weisberg, a 15 year old Clevelnd Heights acquaintance of d.a. levy.The following is an excerpt from Cleveland Magazine.com in November 2007 about JUlie Weisberg: "Authorities never said exactly which literature prompted levy and Lowell's indictments. But police arrested levy again in late March, confiscated his mimeograph and charged him with five counts of tending to contribute to the delinquency of minors. The charges could have sent levy to prison for up to five years. He was indicted for publishing the 17-year-old Friedman's "Black Revolt" in his anthology "465"; giving a copy of the book to Julie Weisberg, a 15-year-old Cleveland Heights girl; and reading the poem to a Gate audience that included the two teens. "465" was made up of youthful literary experiments of mixed quality "” a delicate poem about two lovers, an overwritten but vivid scene at Adele's Bar, Vietnam War protests, a...
Dates: 1967

Poem for May Day, 2000 / Young, Karl., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34644-36345
Scope and Contents

This broadside consists of a concrete colored poem composed of aphorisms from the Greek poet, Corinna and the labor activist, Joe Hill. Karl Young contributes an explanation on the verso related to workers' rights. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Poem from Jail / Sanders, Edward., 1963

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Identifier: CC-49569-70617
Scope and Contents

This is the fourth printing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963