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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1449 Collections and/or Records:

Treasured Moments / Moss, Brian., 1999

 Item
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

Two Interpolations / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1996

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Identifier: CC-35264-36998
Scope and Contents

The narrative compares classical Greek arcadia with the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Two Left No Right Shoe Shine But Red-On Feetbook Go Forever: An Homage For Bob Kaufman, 1986

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Identifier: CC-40506-42478
Scope and Contents

This book was done to commemorate the death of Bob Kaufmann, a fellow communist poet who lived in the North Beach section of San Francisco and was a good friend of Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Two Milestones Two Lives / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995

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Identifier: CC-13000-13292
Scope and Contents

Varennes signifies the city that was the place where the King of France was captured during the French revolution and Vincennes the place where Rousseau had a vision that "...progress had not purified morals at all, but corrupted them disastrously." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

[Two Nixon Worms] / Anna Esposito., 1972

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Identifier: CC-14196-14502
Scope and Contents

Depicts President Nixon shaped as a worm. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

[Two Nixon Worms] / Anna Esposito., 1972

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Identifier: CC-14196-14502
Scope and Contents

Depicts President Nixon shaped as a worm. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Two Poems (1) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1993

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Identifier: CC-11100-11315
Scope and Contents

This poem is entitled Des Esseintes and reads The muddied- colours of - the mouthwash - cocktails. The title translate in English to boredom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Two Poems (2) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1993

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Identifier: CC-11099-11314
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts a cap with a Spitfire (British WWII fighter airplane) roundel. The poem reads, A cap - of liberty- with a Spitfire -roundel -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Two Proposals for the Munich Ehrentemple Sites / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Appleton, Ian., 1993

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Identifier: CC-12516-12743
Scope and Contents

The images deal with Finlay's notions of denazification of the Ehrentemple sites. In Finlay's bookprints 1963-1997, this work is annotated as teo drawings with commentary but they are probably lithographis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993