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Hirschman, Jack A., 1933-2021

 Person

Found in 286 Collections and/or Records:

Nup Chal Han Buk / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09033-9210
Scope and Contents

According to Hirschman, the title derives from four Mayan words: Nup=unite(d), Chal=mend, sew together, Han=clear, clean, Buk=heart. He thought of this as a marraige gift since the words can be read as Nuptial Handbook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

On a Film of Fossils / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09158-9339
Scope and Contents

The poem is a spoof relating to a film recently made on the Beat Generation poets; Hirschman considers it a dead movement. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Onekahakaha / Jack A. Hirschman., 1989

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Identifier: CC-09312-9495
Scope and Contents

Onekahakaha is a Hawaian word meaning "picture drawing sand." The visual works in this book are varients of Hawaian petroglyphs. The poem in the book is an Indian love song written by Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Onekahakaha / Jack A. Hirschman., 1989

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Identifier: CC-09312-9495
Scope and Contents

Onekahakaha is a Hawaian word meaning "picture drawing sand." The visual works in this book are varients of Hawaian petroglyphs. The poem in the book is an Indian love song written by Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Partial Portrait of Maria by Feruccio Brugnaro / Hirschman, Jack A. ; Falk A., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34551-36250
Scope and Contents

Cover drawing was done by Agneta Falk . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

[Pendulum] / Mallarme, Stephane; Jack A. Hirschman, translator., 1973

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Identifier: CC-37193-39037
Scope and Contents

This back cover of Invisible City No.9, 1973, depicts a shaped poem (flask) by Mallarme that was translated and written in his own hand by Jack Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Pitiless Pieta / Jack A. Hirschman., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09032-9209
Scope and Contents

Deals with the issue of the "atrocity reports of the Iraqis...to the exclusion of all the people we had destroyed..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Plum Bananas / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09161-9342
Scope and Contents

The title of this book is a double entendre. It is a love poem superimposed on a background of King Solomon's alphabet. The poem closes with "Plum Bananas Over You." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

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