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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 258 Collections and/or Records:

[Bangboek Code Decipher] / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1978

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Identifier: CC-36479-38276
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As a conscientious objector to military service in South Africa, Boshoff served a prison term and wrote this political tract in made-up language for security reasons. This page serves as the key to deciphering the text. It is stored in the enveloper holding the pages for this tract. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Bangboek, Page 24, 1978 - 1981

 Item — Folder 4: [Barcode: 31858072459427]
Identifier: CC-24181-24633
Scope and Contents As a conscientious objector to military service in South Africa, Boshoff served a prison term and wrote this political tract in made-up language for security reasons. The single original page of writings is numbered 24. The remainder of the original manuscript (pages 1-23) is held by a South African Bank. The photocopied text of the 23 manuscript pages is unique and done by Boshoff. A single page provides the key to the code writing. The original page is matted and stored in a box with other drawings by Boshoff. From Boshoff "word forms and language shapes," Boshoff writes the following: Although I only began making BANGBOEK in 1978, the idea for the work originated in 1973, when I was 22. In response to a powerful religious call, I angered my parents by aborting my art studies in the final year, and instead became a lay preacher. The South African Defence Force (SADF) made things worse, pulling me in for yet another of the army's compulsory training camps. To my mind the army was...
Dates: 1978 - 1981

Bern Porter: ghost writers. No.2 / Robin Crozier, editor., 1987

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Identifier: CC-59769-10002828
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Contirbutors each produced ten A4 sheets each sheet relating to one of the ten letters in BERN PORTER... The theme is anti-nuclear war weapons. This oeriodical is stored in Robin Crozier's box. The names on the cover are unfamiliar to the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Black Strokes White Spaces / Kempton, Karl ; Esposito A., 1984

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Identifier: CC-56304-56893
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This is the 'deluxe edition' of the book with a recycled hard cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Blessed Are the Meek: The Roots of Christian Nonviolence / Merton, Thomas ; Corita M ; Baez J., 1967

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Identifier: CC-30782-32228
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The cover by Sister Mary Corita reprints a colored rubberstamped text of the title and subtitle. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Book of Dust; The Beginning and the End of Time and Thereafter / Denes, Agnes., 1989

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Identifier: CC-15140-15461
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The theme of this book deals with human-induced hazards of our environment. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

[Books by Thomas Merton] / Merton, Thomas., 1969

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Identifier: CC-30793-32239
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This posthumous list of May 1969 lists Merton's publications and indicates that even at this date Monks Pound was out of print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Brazilian Poetry, 1950-1980 / Brasil, Emanuel, editor ; Edwin Morgan, translator ; William Jay Smith, editor & translator ; Richard Zenith, translator ; Jane R. Longland, translator ; DeCampos H ; DeCampos A ; Pignatari D ; Cage J ; Joyce J ; Pound E ; Apollinaire G., 1983

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Identifier: CC-23016-23453
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Introduction by E. Brasil and W. Smith features a discussion of concrete poetry in Brazil. Includes notes by H. DeCampos about his book "Transient Servitude," and poem, "Nekuia." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Briar Rose / Wittig, Dale., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56308-9999733
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The author approaches Karl Marx and revolutionary politics through collage and 'Sleeping Beauty.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Buddhist 3rd Class Junkmail Oracle: 8th Last Issue. No.10/Aug., 1969

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Identifier: CC-27327-27939
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The masthead typeface has been changed to a more psychodelic one. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Buddhist 3rd Class Junkmail Oracle: 11th Last Issue. No.13/Dec / Crews J ; levy da ; Blazek D ; Franke C ; Thomason R., 1969

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Identifier: CC-27330-27942
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Cover depicts a portrait of da levy drawn by Reed Thomason. This is the first issue to be printed with an additional color other than black. The da levy portrait has a red border. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969