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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1449 Collections and/or Records:

The Dawn of the Age of Leisure, 1975

 Item — Folder 59: [Barcode: 31858072537933]
Identifier: CC-34082-35762
Scope and Contents

The completed text reads, "Wych Countree has the Elm Disease?" The outlines of world-wide countries are flying around a sky with a setting sun as if they were leaves. Four human figures are drawn encased in grids. The Archive has two other unsigned copies of this print; this is the only copy that is folded. This print is depicted in Furnival's "Lost For Words" (2011) page 61. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

The Dawn of the Age of Leisure / Furnival, John., 1975

 Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]
Identifier: CC-54727-990161
Scope and Contents

The completed text reads, "Wych Countree has the Elm Disease?" The outlines of world-wide countries are flying around a sky with a setting sun as if they were leaves. Four human figures are drawn encased in grids. The Archive has three other unsigned copies of this print. This print is depicted in Furnival's "Lost For Words" (2011) page 61. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

The Enlightenment / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12168-12392
Scope and Contents

The poem reads, "After decapitation the victims are limewashed." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The First Battle of Little Sparta, February 4, 1983 (Flute, Begin with Me), 1984

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-12418-12645
Scope and Contents

The medal depicts an automatic machine gun as a metaphor for a flute; commemorates first episode of an assult by the Strathclyde Region tax collectors on Finlay's home. The leaflet accompanyimg this medal commemorating the incident is a visual pun on Virgil's flute, with the vents in the barrel-sleeve as the finger-stops. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Flageolet's Surname / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Lindsley, Kathleen., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-10982-11195
Scope and Contents The image on this card is a drawing of a drum. Wikipedia 2011: A flageolet is a woodwind musical instrument and a member of the fipple flute family. Its invention is ascribed to the 16th century Sieur Juvigny in 1581.[1] It had 4 holes on the front and 2 on the back. The English instrument maker William Bainbridge developed it further and patented the "improved English flageolet" in 1803 as well as the double flageolet around 1805. They were continued to be made until the 19th century when it was succeeded by the tin whistle. Flageolets have varied greatly during the last 400 years. The first flageolets were called "French flageolets", and have four tone-holes on the front and two on the back. This instrument was played by Frédéric Chalon, Samuel Pepys, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Henry Purcell and George Frideric Handel both wrote pieces for it. Small versions of this instrument, called bird flageolets were also made and were used for teaching birds to sing. The number of keys on...
Dates: 1989

The Garden Is Open / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12150-12374
Scope and Contents

On the verso, Finlay writes that his garden is opened to members of the National Trust whose book considered Finlay's sculptural garden an architectural folly; however the gate to the garden in the image on the recto is framed with a guillotine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The Going-On Poem / Hollo, Anselm., 1966

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Identifier: CC-30722-32166
Scope and Contents

The text reproduces Hollo's handwritten version of the poem. The letter dated 18 August 1966 is addressed to Henry Rago, the editor of Poetry (Chicago) and requests that this book as well as & it is a song and Faces and Forms be considered for review. The two poems as loose pages are entitled "Love in the bathroom." This book is also designated Writers Forum Quartos No.1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

The Going-On Poem / Hollo, Anselm., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-31707-33217
Scope and Contents

Also designated Writers Forum Quartos No.1. The text reproduces Hollo's handwritten version of the poem -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

The Going-On Poem / Hollo, Anselm., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-31767-33280
Scope and Contents

Also designated Writers Forum Quartos No.1. The text reproduces Hollo's handwritten version of the poem -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

The Happy Birthday of Death / Corso, Gregory ; Ginsberg A., 1960

 Item
Identifier: CC-18592-18964
Scope and Contents

The Bomb, a pattern poem, is reproduced on the fold-out pages. This is the 11th printing of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

The Happy Catastrophe / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-11090-11305
Scope and Contents This poem "Be- falls," is based upon Friedrich Schlegel's characterization of the French Revolution. Schlegel (1772--1829) was an important German literary critic and philosopher who lived in Paris for a brief period of time.Internet 2011: In the early 1800s the flame of Schlegel's early radicalism dimmed and his thought moved steadily in a conservative direction. He became disillusioned with the French Revolution, which seemed to end in anarchy, commercialism and military dictatorship. Increasingly, he saw the defence of the Catholic Church and the old social hierarchy as the only safeguards against these disturbing trends, and as the only pillars of spiritual and communal values. His growing conservatism culminated in his conversion to the Roman Catholic Church in 1808 and in his diplomatic and literary activity on behalf of Metternich between 1809 and 1818. In his later political writings, especially his Signatur des Zeitalters (Sign of the Age) (1820), Schlegel defended a...
Dates: 1992

The Houise of Bin Laden / Langlands, Ben ; Bell, Nikki., 2004

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Identifier: CC-54214-643108
Scope and Contents

This is recording of the artists' impressions of a two week trip to Afghanistan in 2002 in the aftermath of 9/11. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

The Importance of Swimming and Other Poems / Freifeld, Larry., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-52226-73348
Scope and Contents

At the time of publication, the author was Vice-President and General Manager of Something Else Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

The Importance of Swimming and Other Poems / Freifeld, Larry., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-11744-11962
Scope and Contents

At the time of publication, the author was Vice-President and General Manager of Something Else Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

[The Individual Artist's Arrogation..., on purple], 1980

 Item — Folder 33: [Barcode: 31858072459922]
Identifier: CC-19933-20321
Scope and Contents

The background color of this print is purple; the text is the same on all the prints with tis title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980