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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1438 Collections and/or Records:

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

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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

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Identifier: CC-18592-18964
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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

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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
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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

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Identifier: CC-11744-11962
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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

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Identifier: CC-52226-73348
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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

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

 Item — Folder 33: [Barcode: 31858072459922]
Identifier: CC-19944-20332
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The print is stamped ARTEXT. The color of the text is black, the background is red and the border is white. Presumably. the color schema is unique. The text is the same on all prints with this title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

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

 Item — Folder 33: [Barcode: 31858072459922]
Identifier: CC-19946-20334
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1980

[The Individual Artist's Arrogation..., transparent], 1980

 Item — Folder 33: [Barcode: 31858072459922]
Identifier: CC-19935-20323
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This print with a graphite border on translucent material has the same text as the other prints with this title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

The Inside Story on Outsiderness / Vogel, Carol; Ligon G., 2011

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Identifier: CC-52362-73485
Scope and Contents

This is an exhibition review of the work of Glen Ligon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

The JAMES R LOWELL DEFENSE FUND (1) / levy, d.a.., 1967

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Identifier: CC-60433-10003365
Scope and Contents

This work kists books seized by Cleveland police from Asphodel Book shop. almost all the books and several of the magazines are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

The JAMES R LOWELL DEFENSE FUND (2) / levy, d.a.; Brainard J., 1967

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Identifier: CC-60434-10003366
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The recto of this work sets forth the context of the trial and the verso reproduces a poem by Joe Brainard relating to peace and tranquility. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

The Last Acts of Saint Fuckyou (Window Shade Version) / Bern Porter., 1990

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Identifier: CC-04096-4174
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The text of this work is laid out in two printed red columns with the space between the columns consisting of the title printed in a large bold typeface. The left column begins, "The abnegating of treaties - The acidifying of alkalis - The afiliation of bastards - The alighning of booby-traps - The ambulating of cripples - The annuling of covenants - The assessing of polls... The right column begins with The naming of misers - The napping of covers - The narrating of contradictions - The nidification of vats - The non-processing of plantiffs - The non-plusing of laities... There were three artist proofs in this edition. Bern Porter was born February 14, 1911 and died June 7, 2004. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Madison Collages, 1975

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Identifier: CC-07246-7389
Scope and Contents

The silkscreen cover print of d.a.levy was done by Tom Kryss. The collages were first published in Quixote Vol.4 No.6. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

The Marble Arrow / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1984

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Identifier: CC-12567-12799
Scope and Contents

The card is shaped like an arrow and has been made from marbled paper, a pun on the poem printed along an inside fold, "The Marble Arrow Always Hits Its Mark!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984