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Conventional poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 140 Collections and/or Records:

Talking Leaf / Jack A. Hirschman., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-09307-9490
Scope and Contents

The title refers to the Cherokee vocabulary invented by Sequoyah but rather than using letters from this language, Hirschman employed Etruscan letters in the background which suggest images of mirror-writing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Talking Leaf / Jack A. Hirschman., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-09307-9490
Scope and Contents

The title refers to the Cherokee vocabulary invented by Sequoyah but rather than using letters from this language, Hirschman employed Etruscan letters in the background which suggest images of mirror-writing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Tapakah Ul (Cockroach St) / Hirschman, Jack., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-36617-38425
Scope and Contents

The poem was printed by hand in the style of Iliazd's early futurist poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Th Flying Foxes / Jack A. Hirschman., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-09064-9243
Scope and Contents

The shape of the book object is bat-like. The main colors utilized, red and blue, refer to the new post-Duvalier Haiti. The box and book object are decorated with colorful Haitian words written in the Cyrillic alphabet because Hirschman regards the shape of Russian as central to his visual/verbal work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Amo Soph Arcane by Jack Hirschman , 1997

 Item — Folder 47: [Barcode: 31858072460045]
Identifier: CC-33584-35237
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 Burning of Los Angeles / Hirschman, Jack., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-36634-38445
Scope and Contents

This poem was composed during Hirschman's Kabbalistic phase of his career. There are large Hebrew letters and words printed on the envelope and colophon. The poem and documentation are printed in Hirschman's distinctive holographic style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

The Burning of Los Angeles / Hirschman, Jack., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-36635-38446
Scope and Contents

This poem was composed during Hirschman's Kabbalistic phase of his career. There are large Hebrew letters and words printed on the envelope and colophon. The poem and documentation are printed in Hirschman's distinctive holographic style. It also includes a photocopied broadside in homage to Jack Hirschman composed by John Thomas in 1973. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

The Burning of Los Angeles / Hirschman, Jack., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-36636-38447
Scope and Contents

This poem was composed during Hirschman's Kabbalistic phase of his career. There are large Hebrew letters and words printed on the envelope and colophon. The poem and documentation are printed in Hirschman's distinctive holographic style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

The Burning of Los Angeles / Hirschman, Jack., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-36637-38448
Scope and Contents

This poem was composed during Hirschman's Kabbalistic phase of his career. There are large Hebrew letters and words printed on the envelope and colophon. The poem and documentation are printed in Hirschman's distinctive holographic style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

The Chthonic Arcane by Jack Hirschman , 1998

 Item — Folder 47: [Barcode: 31858072460045]
Identifier: CC-33582-35235
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1998

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