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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1449 Collections and/or Records:

Wo warst du, Gott? / Renate Varnhorn., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-36681-38495
Scope and Contents

The title translated as "What is your view of God? is repetitively machine stitched in repeating rows with the endthreads left intentionally long as part of the design. The title is also printed as a headline in the newspaper which is folded in half. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Wo warst du, Gott? / Renate Varnhorn., 2001

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Identifier: CC-36681-38495
Scope and Contents

The title translated as "What is your view of God? is repetitively machine stitched in repeating rows with the endthreads left intentionally long as part of the design. The title is also printed as a headline in the newspaper which is folded in half. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

[Woman Jailed for Molesting 12-Yr.-Old Boy] / Clark, Larry., 1992

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Identifier: CC-20099-20493
Scope and Contents

Acquired as a result of a financial donation to Printed Matter bookstore at Dia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Women In The Radical Movement / levy, d.a.., 1968

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Identifier: CC-33535-35185
Scope and Contents

This collage is dated October 1968; levy commited suicide on November 24, 1968. This was one of the Madison Collages that did not make it into publication in Quixote magazine. levy inscribed on the verso, "Blowup front cover." However, the magazine that held the photocopies of the Madison Collages used a cover by Tom Kryss. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Word From The North / Anselm Hollo, editor & translator., 1965

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Identifier: CC-51234-72322
Scope and Contents

This is an anthology of poems by Finnish poets. This was one of the books seized by the Cleveland Police from Jim Lowell's Asphodel Bookshop because of obscenity of which none appear in the book. The only mildly controversial poem deals with the Vietnam war. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Word Press: Five Poems. No.1 / William John Watkins., 1968

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Identifier: CC-31926-33451
Scope and Contents

Watkins' poems were composed in opposition to the policies of President Lyndon Baines Johnson in the Vietnam. This periodical was editied by Richard Van Der Voort of Southwestern College, Chula Vista, California. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Working It Out / Scher, Paula; Rittner, Jennifer., 2006

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Identifier: CC-44888-47060
Scope and Contents

This is an illustration for an essay by Claudia Goldin which makes the point that women are not giving up careers for home and family. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Wormwood Review, The. No.32 / Marvin Malone, editor ; levy da ; Wagner Dr ; Depew W ; Fox H ; Crow D ; Fraser D., 1968

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Identifier: CC-48101-69124
Scope and Contents

This issue has a section of several poems by Hugh Fox. It also incudes two visual poems by d.a. levy. The cover depicts six block poems by Wally Depew. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

WPA, The / Findlay J., 1998

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Identifier: CC-32987-34607
Scope and Contents

This catalogue accompanied an exhibition of Works Progress Administration literature and art at the Fort Lauderdale Library Special Collections. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Wreathing of Rockets / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1986

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Identifier: CC-12098-12322
Scope and Contents

The poem reads, wreathing of rockets - dusting of dreadnoughts - greening of gun-sites - parading of panzers - dressing of wells. It is captioned, "Traditioningly the dressing of wells takes place in the spring.' - Newspaper report. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

wrecking ballzark, th: The Death of i[CR][CR]THE DEATH OF i. No.11 / jw curry., 1979

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Identifier: CC-53365-63135
Scope and Contents

The poem reads, DDT - ddt. It is also designated Curvd H&Z No.38 and pomez a penny #21. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Xerolage: War-Sav. No.27 / Jean-Francois Robic., 1998

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Identifier: CC-33194-34824
Scope and Contents

The author provides a Lexicon in English for the foreign words used in the visual poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998