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Letters from "The Tombs" / Cartas desde Las Tubas (IV) / Liberman, Ruth., 1997

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Identifier: CC-34889-36600

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Scope and Contents

The finely handwritten text can only be read in a few phrases, where the lines are not densely layered. They include diary passages that read, "ready to join the union. Last week he was arrested on 146th street...He plans to learn a trade in prison - to compete with eight million unemployed...Sunday, July 6, 1941." this piece was lent to the Jewish museum in Berlin in 2003. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1997

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 drawing (typewriter film carbon) in frame (wooden, plexiglas)) ; 23 x 16 cm, in frame 38 x 28 x 2 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

hallway 1st flo

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: New York : [Publisher not identified]. Nationality of creator: German. General: About 1 total copies. General: Updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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