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Political poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 117 Collections and/or Records:

Through a Dark Wood/Midway, 1976

 Item — Box 190: [Barcode: 31858072459609]
Identifier: CC-11914-12136
Scope and Contents

Relates to the World War II battle of Midway. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Through a Dark Wood/Midway, 1975

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-11915-12138
Scope and Contents

A folded sheet onto which is printed a critical text by Stephen Bann accompanies this medallion. The image is a metaphor for the World War II battle of Midway in the South Pacific which was fought with airpower rather that ship to ship sightings. The text accompanying this work is stored in a box of Finlay booklets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Thunderbolt Steers All, 1975

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-12423-12650

Twine Is Jacobin; String is Girondist, 1990

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
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 Left No Right Shoe Shine But Red-On Feetbook Go Forever: An Homage For Bob Kaufman, 1986

 Item — Box 142: [Barcode: 31858072457959]
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

(Uh..One & Uh..Two) Random Sightings, 2001

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-40258-42229
Scope and Contents

This book includes reproductions of "Book 14 T that consisted of abstract markings rendered on the mimeograph machine. The book reproduces 'The Para-Concrete Manifesto (1996)' is from the original mimeograph printing. Some of the pages inside 'untitled (1964)' also reproduced in the book were based upon images used for levy's '6 cleveland prints' (renegade press, 1964). There were 5 copies published; probably each one different from the other. Here, copy #2. is reprinted. The pages are colored abstract markings with some containing letter pictures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Une Baignade, Asnieres, 1884 - 111 Years On, 1991

 Item — Box 126: [Barcode: 31858072458288]
Identifier: CC-01234-1265
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. Torok reproduced a translucent fragment of a Seurat painting "Une baignade à Asnières," with a computer in which its clarity is obscured according to his ideas by the effects of the presumed passage of time, exposure to environmental pollutants and occurrence of catastrophic weather conditions. These conditions are listed in bold type face partially overlaying each of the six images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Voodoo for Anti-Communist Tourists / Andrews, Bruce; Cobbing, Bob., 1991

 Item — Box 316: [Barcode: 31858072490810]
Identifier: CC-26025-26487
Scope and Contents

The language poem by Andrews is illustrated by Cobbing's photocopied distortions of the conventionally printed Andrew's poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Zen Concrete & etc., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-07136-7276
Scope and Contents

This reprinting of levy's concrete poetry was edited by Ingrid Swanberg who acknowledged..."heartfelt thanks to Marvin Sackner for its longstanding belief in this project..." The book is divided into three sections: 1) "Zen Concrete" comprises the entire 23 poem sequence, partly published in Blewointment Press 1967, 2) "& etc." is a wide selection from major poetic works, Cleveland Undercovers and Subterranean Monastery Death Poem, and 3) "afterwords" assembles articles by his friends. The images in this citation include an exhibition of d.a. levy's works as well as works about him that was shown during Art Basel Miami on December 6, 2008. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991