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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1438 Collections and/or Records:

Topografia / Silveira, Regina., 1978

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Identifier: CC-30344-31758
Scope and Contents

An image of a gun emerges in four stages on a three dimensional grid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Topolski's Chronicle: International Poetry at tht Royal Albert Hall London. No.5-6 / Alexander Trocchi, editor ; Ferlinghetti L ; Horovitz M ; Morgan E ; Brown P ; Mitchell A ; Smith St ; Jandl E ; Ginsberg A ; Lucie-Smith E ; Voznesensky A ; Corso G ; Hollo A ; Neruda P ; Trocchi A., 1965

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Identifier: CC-36625-38436
Scope and Contents

This issue consists of lithographed reproductions of poems read on June 11, 1965 at the Royal Albert Hall that Trocchi described as a "Happening" because of the unexpected crowd that attended an avant-garde event in a conservative place. Topolski contributed charcoal sketches of the participants. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Torque of the Town / Hobbs, Stephen., 1999

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Identifier: CC-47229-49972
Scope and Contents

This book contrasts beautiful color photographs of Johannesburg with texts warning about the dangers in this city. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Totem para Decio Pignartari [Beba Coca-Cola] / Pignatari, Decio; Bonvicino, Regis R.., 1957 - 1979

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Identifier: CC-34076-35756
Scope and Contents

This political poem dealing with the influence of the soft drink "Coca Cola" was written by Pignatari in 1975 and rendered into this print by Bonvicino in 1979. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957 - 1979

Touched by AIDS / Macia C ; Lurie S., 1997

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Identifier: CC-29840-31221
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive lent "Carta a una Pasion Muerta" by Carlos Macia to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Transformation: Texte zu Tschenobyl / Sdun, Dieter., 1987

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Identifier: CC-60604-66502
Scope and Contents

Each print consists of the same text that decribes the atomic meltdown of Chenobyl. Only one print depicts a easily readable text with the rest shoeing cancellations of blind letterpress words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Translation of a Line from Chenier; A Line of Thin Pale Red / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1991

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Identifier: CC-10941-11153
Scope and Contents

The text was written by Prudence Carlson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Treasured Moments / Moss, Brian., 1999

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Identifier: CC-34718-36423
Scope and Contents

The drawing consists of a photorealistic depiction of a student's punchcard for an examination on the left side and documentation of "Recent Mideast Violence." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Trice / Vallejo, Cesar ; Clayton Eshleman, translator., 1992

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Identifier: CC-50286-71353
Scope and Contents

Trilce was published in the same year as The Waste Land and is, like the Eliot poem, a masterpiece of early modernism, a ground-breaking work which has had an indelible effect on all subsequent poetry in its language. The book, a first edition, includes seventy-seven poems that are considered Vallejo's most complex and radical work. According to Eshelman, one early critic of these poems stated that Vallejo (1892-1938) invented surrealism before Surrealism. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Truisms and Essays, 1983

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Identifier: CC-29934-31325
Scope and Contents

This book lists of Holzer's aphorisms in bold and colored typography translated from English to other languages. Most have a political slant. The print lists the aphorisms in alphabetical order. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Trust Abandons Follies and Furies / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1983

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Identifier: CC-57802-10001054
Scope and Contents

Deals with Finlay's displeasure with being listed among the follies in the National Trust Guide. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Turbulence, 2001

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Identifier: CC-37339-39191
Scope and Contents With his unique graphic and typographic style, Drescher's disturbing book reflects the turbulence of the twenty-first century in word and image. Its theme is particularly timely relevant to the destruction and turmoil of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001, close to the date that this book is being catalogued. "Turbulence is an intricately produced artist's book that catalogues Drescher's vivid world of images, and a visual narrative that follows one man through the troubled past, an uncertain future, and the enduring timelessness of myth." BOOKLIST review on Amazon.com Although best known as a highly regarded children's book illustrator, Drescher squarely aims this elegantly designed artist's book at adults, and sophisticated adults at that. He offers a loose interpretation of the Hindu myth of creation, bracketing it with a vague narrative about a traveler setting off on the "ocean of bliss" and throwing in a passage depicting a...
Dates: 2001

Turnout X / Bellingham, David., 2005

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Identifier: CC-43849-45946
Scope and Contents

Each page contains 16 rows of handmade X's for a total of 4668 crosses in this book. They represent approximately 1/500 of the votes cast in Scotland on the general election of May 5th. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Turnout X / Bellingham, David., 2005

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Identifier: CC-43850-45947
Scope and Contents

Each page contains 16 rows of handmade X's for a total of 4668 crosses in this book. They represent approximately 1/500 of the votes cast in Scotland on the general election of May 5th. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Turnout X / Bellingham, David., 2005

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Identifier: CC-49420-70465
Scope and Contents

Each page contains 16 rows of handmade X's for a total of 4668 crosses in this book. They represent approximately 1/500 of the votes cast in Scotland on the general election of May 5th. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Twine Is Jacobin; String is Girondist / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1990

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Identifier: CC-12341-12567
Scope and Contents

The twine is blue and the string is white. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990