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Political poetry

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 117 Collections and/or Records:

Kriwet Stars, 1971

 Item — Box 614: [Barcode: 31858072461001]
Identifier: CC-37644-39505
Dates: 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Ferdinand Kriwet

Kriwet Stars: Band 1, 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-61487-10004002
Scope and Contents

This is one of three volumes that reproduces Kriwet's scrapbook of images along with some collages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Ferdinand Kriwet

Kriwet Stars: Band 2, 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-61485-10004000
Scope and Contents

This is one of three volumes that reproduces Kriwet's scrapbook of images along with some collages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Ferdinand Kriwet

Kriwet Stars: Band 3, 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-62385-8008
Scope and Contents

This is one of three volumes that reproduces Kriwet's scrapbook of images along with some collages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Ferdinand Kriwet

Language Decoy: Politricks, 1992

 Item — Box 305: [Barcode: 31858072460953]
Identifier: CC-02729-2772
Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / W. Mark Sutherland

Let's Stop the Machine That Produces War, 2000

 Item — Box 329: [Barcode: 31858072490950]
Identifier: CC-33973-35645
Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Letter to Bill Wyatt, re: Cleveland poems: [from 465 an anthology of cleveland poets], 1966

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-49020-70058
Scope and Contents This is a piece that was sent to Bill Wyatt by d.a. levy. Bennett Hassink died in 2008 and his obituary was printed in the Berkeley Daily Planet. Bennett James Hassink, known to his many friends as "Bud," died in Berkeley on Monday Feb. 25, 2008, at the age of 81, from congestive heart failure. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio in March 1926, where he was married to Mildred Pugh. Bud and Millie could be considered one of the early "bohemian" couples during the early 1960s. Millie, a talented artisan and jeweler, bore him his first daughter March. Their home on Wadena Street in East Cleveland was always full of interesting people, listening to electronically combined sounds and bits of recorded music that Bud mixed on reel-to-reel tapes, with lots of conversations, philosophical discussions and chess games. The music Bud made was far ahead of the synthesizer music and sounds of the'70s, and it had an ethereal yet melodic quality. He was routinely involved in the Cleveland music...
Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / Correspondence / 1966

Logo for..., 1984

 Item — Box 621: [Barcode: 31858072461084]
Identifier: CC-18104-18476
Scope and Contents

The cards depict a logo for the Activist, Cultivated, Confused, and Dispossessed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Monument to Television Chernobyl, 1992

 Item — Box 139: [Barcode: 31858072457926]
Identifier: CC-03577-3641
Scope and Contents

Chernobyl refers to a city in Russia in which a major nuclear accident took place. Rabascall has depicted the event by presenting the city as an ancient pyramid with four television receivers and a satellite dish on its top and letters covered with sand falling in a disorderly arrangement down the slopes of the pyramid. The latter might signify the initial concealment of the magnitude of this disaster by the Soviet government. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Most alarming is the growing resistance to pesticides, 1993

 Item — Box 612: [Barcode: 31858072460987]
Identifier: CC-05671-5778
Scope and Contents

Also designated W.S. #6. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / F. A. Nettelbeck

Networker Congress , 1992

 Item — Box 327: [Barcode: 31858072490943]
Identifier: CC-23625-24072
Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

No More Censorship, 1990

 Item — Box 615: [Barcode: 31858073143871]
Identifier: CC-07910-8064
Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Rora and Dobrica Kamperelić

No Place Fast, 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-34269-35960
Dates: 1976
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / bpNichol

$oul, 1971

 Item — Box 339: [Barcode: 31858072491248]
Identifier: CC-34074-35754
Dates: 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Peace Lesson One, 1982

 Item — Box 271: [Barcode: 31858073143376]
Identifier: CC-21814-22225
Scope and Contents

Consists of plastic gun and flowers with typed inscription on card: a) hold the machine gun, b) insert flowers, c) fire. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Peace Medal, 1974

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-03056-3101
Scope and Contents

The artist's answer to "where is the elusive common denominator that will make peace possible?...the word PEACE in virtually every written language." 500 medals were struck in bronze and 50 in gold. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

[Pest Telephone], 2002

 Item — Box 162: [Barcode: 31858072458155]
Identifier: CC-39238-41184
Scope and Contents

The object is a decorated, old, wireless telephone. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / A / Andryczuk, Hartmut

Photoscript Starring White Boy, 1990

 Item — Box 620: [Barcode: 31858072461076]
Identifier: CC-00331-339
Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Picture-Captions, 2003

 Item — Box 614: [Barcode: 31858072461001]
Identifier: CC-42250-44256
Dates: 2003
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Michael Kasper

Poem For Julie, 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60488-56234
Scope and Contents The cover photograph was taken by Max Roach. At the time of this poem, Julie was Julie Weisberg, a 15 year old Clevelnd Heights acquaintance of d.a. levy.The following is an excerpt from Cleveland Magazine.com in November 2007 about JUlie Weisberg: "Authorities never said exactly which literature prompted levy and Lowell's indictments. But police arrested levy again in late March, confiscated his mimeograph and charged him with five counts of tending to contribute to the delinquency of minors. The charges could have sent levy to prison for up to five years. He was indicted for publishing the 17-year-old Friedman's "Black Revolt" in his anthology "465"; giving a copy of the book to Julie Weisberg, a 15-year-old Cleveland Heights girl; and reading the poem to a Gate audience that included the two teens. "465" was made up of youthful literary experiments of mixed quality "” a delicate poem about two lovers, an overwritten but vivid scene at Adele's Bar, Vietnam War protests, a...
Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / 1967