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Hirschman, Jack A., 1933-2021

 Person

Found in 286 Collections and/or Records:

The Girt Arcane by Jack Hirschman, 1998

 Item — Folder 47: [Barcode: 31858072460045]
Identifier: CC-33585-35238
Scope and Contents

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor and china ink with a fine sable brush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

The Gosh of Goshes / Jack A. Hirschman., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-09195-9376
Scope and Contents

This is an affectionate love poem with abstract painted embellishments in a book object that is an unfolding construction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Green Chakre Arcane by Jack Hirschman, 1997

 Item — Folder 47: [Barcode: 31858072460045]
Identifier: CC-33580-35233
Scope and Contents

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor with a fine sable brush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

The Hanged Man: In Memory of Mitch Snyder / Jack A. Hirschman., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-08909-9085
Scope and Contents

Poem in homage to the homeless advocate, Mitch Snyder, who had recently committed suicide, and the sweep of the homeless from Civic Center in San Francisco. As Hirschman states, this is an ongoing struggle, i.e., a half-mast flag hangs at City Hall (ironically and hypocritically) and thus his symbolic allusion at the poem's ending. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Hound Arcane by Jack Hirschman, 1998

 Item — Folder 52: [Barcode: 31858072537867]
Identifier: CC-33586-35239
Scope and Contents

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor with a fine sable brush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

The Last Cigaret: Smokeender's Haiku / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1989

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Identifier: CC-09157-9338
Scope and Contents

The work is intended as an admonition to smokers in the form of a work of art. The haiku is repeated for both sexes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

The New World Odor / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-09236-9417
Scope and Contents

Hirschman contrasts the narrow demands of government with the freedom of making art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Pasolini Arcane by Jack Hirschman, 1997

 Item — Folder 46: [Barcode: 31858072460052]
Identifier: CC-33581-35234
Scope and Contents

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor with a fine sable brush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

The Pearl / Hirschman, Jack A., introducer., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-29708-31083
Scope and Contents

This book consists of erotic stories from a magazine with the same title written during Victorian England. An introductory essay was written by Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

The Red Flag / Jack A. Hirschman; P Pasolini., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-08840-9015
Scope and Contents

Book consists of Hirschman's translation of a poem by Pier Paolo Pasolini. The last lines of the poem are on the covers; the inside pages are intentionally illegiblized to reflect the trashing of the flag, part of the poem itself. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Rotzone Arcane by Jack Hirschman, 1997

 Item — Folder 46: [Barcode: 31858072460052]
Identifier: CC-33583-35236
Scope and Contents

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor with a fine sable brush and added figurative images in acrylic paint. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

The Song in My Sentence / Jack A. Hirschman., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09197-9378
Scope and Contents

The theme deals with a nostalgic view of the Russian language. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Splintered Page: Homage to Asa Beneviste, 1990

 Item — Box 47: [Barcode: 31858072538675]
Identifier: CC-08841-9016
Scope and Contents

Work done in homage to Asa Beneviste, the American expatriate poet/publisher, who died in Yorkshire at age 64 of diabetes. The signs derive from original Welsh alphabets as Wales is closest to both Beneviste and Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Spring after the War / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09035-9212
Scope and Contents

This work was written and constructed on the day of the cease fire for the Gulf War and its theme deals optimistically to the coming of spring. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Teeth in the Software: The Atom Bomb Changed Language into Soundbytes / Jack A. Hirschman., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-09067-9246
Scope and Contents

The words in the title are written in the text as words made by a phonetic software package. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

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Conventional poetry 135
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Calligraphic text 57
Conventional non-fiction 39
Conventional fiction 26