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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1449 Collections and/or Records:

Shock Tropes for Little Sparta / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Sloan, Nicholas., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-11922-12145
Scope and Contents

A poster that exhorts Finlay friends to help in his despute with the regional tax collectors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Sketch for Kidnapping Kissinger / Fahlstrom, Oyvind., 1974

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Identifier: CC-13101-13396
Scope and Contents

This print deals with political and environmental issues in America using dense cartoon-like sketches in black & white, e.g., Attica, NY before police take prison, Colorado Plateau Colo.- Union Carbide extracts uranium, average 50 workers die of lung brain surgery on homosexuals and habitual criminals, etc. The background is a grid of squares labeled as states and on the left side instructions for playing a game. This print was part of nine other prints by Fahlstrom published by multipla editions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Smoking Typewriters / McMillian, John ; Bukowski C ; Cage J ; Ginsberg A ; Hoffman A ; Kerouac J ; levy da ; Ono Y ; Spiegelman A., 2011

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Identifier: CC-59724-10002781
Scope and Contents

Subtitled "The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America," the book title was suggested to the author by Allen Ginsberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

So You Want To Be A Panzer Leader? / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Clark, Laurie., 1975

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Identifier: CC-11264-11479
Scope and Contents

Presentation of text is in the form of a questionaire that is illustrated with line drawings of Panzer tanks by Laurie Clark. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Socle / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12138-12362
Scope and Contents

The card reproduces a watercolor image of a musket with bayonet. The caption "Socle" means pedestal or stand. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Soneto No.36 / De Araujo, Avelino., 1997

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Identifier: CC-36533-38334
Scope and Contents

This print depicts a column of printer's visual ornaments with skulls in the center row. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Songs and Poems / Glik, Hirsh ; Jack A. Hirschman, translator ; Zachary Baker, translator., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51610-72709
Scope and Contents

Jack Hirschman contriburtes an introductory essay describing Glik's poems and songs as personifying the creed of Partisans against Nazism particularly in Vilna , Lithuania. "When the news of the Waqrsaw Ghetto uprising reached the Vilna ghetto, it inspired Hirsh to write his famous song-poem "Zog Nit Keynmor (Don't Ever Say)"... In a short time and with amazing speed, Hirsh Glik's song became the anthem of the Resistance: It swept through the ghettos and camps and became known as "the Song of the Partisans." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Sonnagrams 1 - 20 / Mohammad, K. Silem ; Howe W., 2009

 Item
Identifier: CC-52450-73576
Scope and Contents

This is the 28th book in a series of chapbooks pubished by La Perruque Editions Chapbooks and Slack Buddah Press. The cover was designed by William and L.A. Howe. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Sooner or Later Hope / Kleinberg, Judy I.., 1983

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Identifier: CC-07777-7929
Scope and Contents

The word HOPE on this collage is formed from letters on four Metro tickets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

SOS / Balestrini, Nanni., 1964

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Identifier: CC-27236-27728
Scope and Contents

The collage composed of different typefaces and dimensions dealing with a political theme is typical of Balestrini's ouevre in the early sixties which has been much reproduced in concrete poetry anthologies of its early period. It is reproduced on page 162 of his 2006 exhibition catalogue, "Con gli occhi del linguaggio." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Sovidents or The Black Book of Mutual Hijacks / Hirschman, Jack., 1986

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Identifier: CC-46352-49077
Scope and Contents

According to Hirschman in a letter to the Sackners, the title is a combination of Soviet and Dissidents. The works are put together in the same book-box.These drawinngs are of the very essence of the influence of the artists of revolutionary Russia. The title is meant to be humorous as these pieces and the box were conceived in relation, or rather in synchronous time with the goodwill games in Moscow. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Spend Me / Maher, Miranda., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35322-37056
Scope and Contents

The two loose sheets describe undesirable side-effects of capitalism and a site list of watchdogs and gadflies. The currency consists of five photocopied 20 dollar bills, realistically reproduced on the recto and containing environmentally incorrect sites on the verso, e.g., Mexico strip mining, Rewanda genocide, Burma forced labor, Brazil deforestation, and Los Angeles toxic ghettos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Spitfire Segments/Messerschmitt Mottle / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1975

 Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]
Identifier: CC-12336-12562
Scope and Contents

This print is not listed in Finlay's book, Prints 1963-1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975