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Conventional non-fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1840 Collections and/or Records:

The Used Future / Nettelbeck, F.A.., 1978

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Identifier: CC-34265-35956
Scope and Contents

Includes a poem entitled "FUCK." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

The Vulnerable Island, 1964

 Item — Box 339: [Barcode: 31858072491248]
Identifier: CC-24045-24495
Scope and Contents

d.a. levy owned Renegade Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

The Waiting Letter / Golden, Alisa., 1985

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Identifier: CC-28622-29915
Scope and Contents

The theme of this book deals with Golden's experience as a juror. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

The Wider Canvas, 1996

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Identifier: CC-32970-34590
Scope and Contents

Several poems have biographic content about the author and his family. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

The World below the Window: Poems 1937-1997 / Smith, William Jay., 1998

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Identifier: CC-29848-31229
Scope and Contents

The Sackners attended the publication and 80th birthday celebration of Smith's anthology of poetry at the Century Club in New York. William Jay Smith presented them with this copy, a personal thank you note for attending his party, two photographs and two reviews of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

The World below the Window: Poems 1937-1997 / Smith, William Jay., 1998

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Identifier: CC-29859-31242
Scope and Contents

The Sackners attended the publication and 80th birthday celebration of this book of poetry at the Century Club in New York. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

The Writing on the Wall: 108 Poems of Protest / Lowenfels, Walter, editor ; Ferlinghetti L ; Kupferberg T ; Ginsberg A ; Starbuck G ; Merton T ; Blazek D ; levy da ; cummings ee ; Patchen K ; Kaufman B ; Bukowski C., 1969

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Identifier: CC-07108-7248
Scope and Contents

d.a.levy's poem in this anthology, "the bells of the Cherokee ponies," deals with the injustices suffered by the American Indians. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

The Xibalba Arcane / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1995

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Identifier: CC-09822-10016
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts a figurative expressionistic painting by Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

There Will Be Floods / Dezso, Andrea., 2008

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Identifier: CC-47796-68815
Scope and Contents

Dezso illustrated this essay with a black and white scene of a tidal wave breaking over a city. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

There's a llttle ambiguity over there among the bluebells / Krauss, Ruth ; Brecht G ; Charlip R., 1968

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Identifier: CC-41474-43459
Scope and Contents

This collection of brief, poem-plays is illustrated by Marilyn Harris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Things Are Happening / Beckman, Joshua ; Stern G., 1998

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Identifier: CC-44897-47069
Scope and Contents Gerald Stern contributed a critical introductory essay. Amazon.com review: Joshua Beckman, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, is one of those poets whose work you mustn't miss. His talent shines in his ability to make disparate events become part of a whole. "Purple Heart Highway" constructs loss as imminent danger ("where a train might mistakenly come") or as the pendulum between routine and chaos ("a gray grinning calmness / from which you can get nothing to wake") or as a sudden realization that threads far back into one's past ("I woke up to a plate full of no options / echoing through the cupped ear of my life / spinning the wheels that wouldn't, / for anything, take me away").In "Winter's Horizon" the theme of loss seeks--and finds--its own sensibilities. A boy writes a story about a father who rides off into the sunset on his riding lawnmower. The boy feels his story is full of meaning, his mother hates it, and his teacher gives it an A+. Yet the lines between...
Dates: 1998

Things / Martin, Stephen-Paul., 1991

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Identifier: CC-06709-6828
Scope and Contents

Illustrations that accompany poems are photographs of structures made from paper clips and rubber bands. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991