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Political poetry

 Subject

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 262 Collections and/or Records:

People Make Guns..., 2000

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-55118-98928
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) / Oversized Wally Depew

[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Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)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Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Michael Kasper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

Poems from Mind Jail, 1967

 Item — Box 617: [Barcode: 31858072461027]
Identifier: CC-16327-16677
Scope and Contents

Printed by d.a.levy. Also designated Persecuted Poet Series #3. Tom Kryss made the silkscreen cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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 / to be sorted (unpublished)

Poems of War and Peace, 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-15600-15927
Scope and Contents

This is the major anthology of Duke's works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

Poetry Newsletter. No.12, 1966

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-51477-72575
Scope and Contents

The artwork was done by Linda Bandt. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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) / Oversized Wally Depew

Poetry Survival Fund, 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-32637-34222
Scope and Contents

The cover was hand colored by Mara. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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

Politics, 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-30611-32050
Scope and Contents

This wall piece consists of the word POLITICS, made of wooden letters, placed at the top of a surface of chaotic, fragmented, interlocked, wooden letter shapes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / Oversized

PORmenor, 1998

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: D: [Barcode: 31858072491370]
Identifier: CC-36523-38324
Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / Oversized D

Pormenor, 1999

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: D: [Barcode: 31858072491370]
Identifier: CC-36526-38327
Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / Oversized D

Portrait of Mr. Charlie Inflation, 1975

 Item — Folder 31: [Barcode: 31858072459906]
Identifier: CC-19783-20170
Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / Henri Chopin

Premio Figari 2005 (Edited by Patricia Bentancur), 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-51664-72764
Scope and Contents

Includes a reprint of Ovum 10 No.2, 1970, an issue held in the original by the Sackner Archive. Several of Padin's Signografias and Textos that are reproduced in this book are held by the Sackner Archive as the original drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

Project for a Monument to Ludwig Feuerbach / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1986

 Item — Folder 36: [Barcode: 31858072459963]
Identifier: CC-58280-10001513
Scope and Contents

The slogan relates to Finlay's dispute with the local tax collectors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / Ian Hamilton Finlay

Prose: on poetry in the wholesale education and culture system (second printing), 1968

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-48097-69120
Dates: 1968
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. / 1968

PROSE on poetry in the wholesale education & culture system (first printing), 1968

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60481-10003386
Dates: 1968
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. / 1968

Purgatory and Carousels / Billera, Jau., 1963

 Item — Box 343: [Barcode: 31858072461118 ]
Identifier: CC-45768-47977
Scope and Contents

Billera had a Cleveland radio program on WCLV and editied "Podium" in the mid-1960's. He committed suicide in 1981 in his sealed automobile with the motor running from carbon monoxide poisoning. The Sackner Archive also holds the 2nd edition published by Renegade Press. Although this edition was not printed by da levy, it is stored in a box of Renegade Press publications with the 2nd edition that was published by d.a. levy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963
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 / B / Billera, Jau

Purple Heart Valentine's Greetings, 2005

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-43521-45594
Scope and Contents

This is Baker's annual Valentine's gift to the Sackner Archive. It is shaped like a heart, trimmed with gold braid and stitched with 3 gold hearts, ribbon and a metal; a horizontal band across had gray stitched calligraphic markings. The text on the folded sheet reads, "A distinguished medal for those brave persons who have fought and were wounded in wars, tsunamis and elections this past year." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / CORRESPONDENCE

Racial Confusion, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-28165-29328
Scope and Contents

Racial names, one printed to the page in different font dimensions, from "European" to "Human," with every racial variant including slur names comprise this booklet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / SMALL BOOKS