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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

A Fourth George Book: A User's Guide / Goswell, Joan Iversen., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42898-44940
Scope and Contents

This rubberstamped book is a negative exposition of Bush's first term Presidency of the United States documented with articles from the news media. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Bush Special Playing Cards, 2008

 Item — Box 213: [Barcode: 31858072459310]
Identifier: CC-50809-71887
Scope and Contents

Each except tor the Joker is collaged with images of coffins draped with the America flag containing dead American soldiers from the Iraq war. The Joker card is collaged with a portrait of George Bush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Events aren't moved by blind change / Goswell, Joan Iversen., 2003

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Identifier: CC-41448-43433
Scope and Contents

The image depicts George W. Bush astride a horse dressed like a crusader invoking God for initiating the Iraq war. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

for a lifetime of shooting - buy a gun! / Goswell, Joan Iversen., 2003

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Identifier: CC-40471-42443
Scope and Contents

This depicts a Attorney-General John Ashcroft holding a rifle and sitting on a large pile of red colored, spent rifle bullets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

for a lifetime of shooting - buy a gun! / Goswell, Joan Iversen., 2003

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Identifier: CC-41447-43432
Scope and Contents

The image depicts Attorney General John Ashcroft, holding a rifle and sitting on a large pile of bullets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Gag Rule / Goswell, Joan Iversen., 1992

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Identifier: CC-36195-37980
Scope and Contents

Iverson reproduced an essay from Spy Magazine, March 1992, that describes "how the Republicans and one weak-kneed Democrat - Joe Biden - suppressed the truth about Clarence Thomas and saved his nomination." (as a Supreme Court Justice) -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

George W. Bush on the Eve of War AD2003 / Goswell, Joan Iversen., 2003

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Identifier: CC-40472-42444
Scope and Contents

This print depicts a President George W. Bush riding a horse, wearing armor adorned with an American bald eagle and holding an American flag. The caption is "Events aren't moved by blind change and chance behind all of life and all of history, there's dedication and purpose, set by the hand of a JUST AND FAITHFUL GOD." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

George's Cabal / Joan Iversen Goswell., 2008

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Identifier: CC-51839-72939
Scope and Contents

This book describes the falsehoods of George Bush that led to America's reasons for entering the iraq war. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

George's Cabal / Joan Iversen Goswell., 2008

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Identifier: CC-51839-72939
Scope and Contents

This book describes the falsehoods of George Bush that led to America's reasons for entering the iraq war. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

It's Politics as Usual: [Clinton vs Dole: The 1996 Presidential Campaign] / Goswell, Joan Iversen., 1996

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Identifier: CC-28532-29814
Scope and Contents As with "The George Book" held by the Sackner Archive, Goswell has created another timeless impression of the American political scene with leanings toward the left. The collage consists of six hinged panels done in an accordion style. The technique of making the collage is reminiscent of the paste-ups of Jesse Collins. Proceeding from left to right, the following images and texts are presented among others: 1) Nixon rising from his coffin, 2) Rick Santorum, senator from Pennsylvania in priest's garb because of his anti-abortion stand, 3) The Allegheny National Forrest, an ancient old growth forrest near Erie where recently logging has been proposed, 4) Dole and a list of political contributors with rewards they received including Julio Gallo, Archer Daniels Midland, 5) unflattering images of politicians of the Christian right, 6) Bill Clinton with an inked epithet reading "I am the Lord Jesus Christ + I will solve all your problems + Believe in me," 6) announcement of the sale of...
Dates: 1996

Just When Did We Go Through the Looking Glass / Joan Iversen Goswell., 1998

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Identifier: CC-36015-37785
Scope and Contents

The image is a small man in a top hat (mad hatter) holding a sign that states "Just when did we go through the looking glass." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Just When Did We Go Through the Looking Glass / Joan Iversen Goswell., 1998

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Identifier: CC-36015-37785
Scope and Contents

The image is a small man in a top hat (mad hatter) holding a sign that states "Just when did we go through the looking glass." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Mogadishu, 1993

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Identifier: CC-29694-31069
Scope and Contents

The main caption on this anti-war drawing in large red, eraser stamped letters reads, "Death does not Stop Death." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Poker Playing Buddies / Goswell, Joan Iversen., 1996

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Identifier: CC-29692-31067
Scope and Contents The main image is a photocollage of Dole, Reagan, Gingrich, Clinton and Josef Goebbels playing poker. Clinton holds cards onto which are written, dunno, yes/no, I'm not sure, and perhaps. Dole holds cards onto which are written, distrust, AIDS, and hopelessness. Reagan holds cards onto which are jobs, corruption, and I'm for me. Gingrich holds cards onto which are written, "greed, power, and censorship." The main text image, eraser stamped with large capital letters in the center of the drawing, reprints a quote from Thomas Jefferson, "The Tree of Liberty Must be Refreshed from Time to Time with the Blood of Tyrants. It is its Natural Manure." On the right and left borders of this quote, Goswell rubberstamped an article from Harper's Weekly dealing with a public scandal involving the first Ex-President of the United States on Wall Street, Ulysses S. Grant, who was implicated in a stock market scam. The bottom third of the drawing consists of a black and white photographic print of...
Dates: 1996

[Serb Forces] / Goswell, Joan Iversen., 1993

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Identifier: CC-36196-37981
Scope and Contents

The text concerns the ethnic cleansing of the Bosnian Muslims by the Serbs. The rubberstamped landscape is illustrated with angels in the sky labeled USA, Europe, Israel, Arab States, England and Rest of the World. Its center portion is rubberstamped with the words "stanking" and "falling skeletons." The bottom portion relates the method of ethnic cleansing that Radovan Karadzic the Serb leader called "ethnic shifting." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The Job of a Citizen is to Keep His Mouth Open / Goswell, Joan Iversen., 1998

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Identifier: CC-33631-35288
Scope and Contents

This is the printed text used for the composition of the book with the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

The Saddam Survival Manual / Goswell, Joan Iversen., 2003

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Identifier: CC-40468-42440
Scope and Contents

Goswell writes in a letter to Marvin Sackner about her gift, "They are actually part of some books in progress. I thought you'd have some fun with them." The theme of the "Survival Manual" describes what you can do, including Watch Out, Build a Shelter, Duck and cover, Pack a Kit, and a post office cancelled stamp. The duct tape was placed owing to an advisory from the government as to what to do in protecting yourself from a terrorist airborne pollutant by enclosing your house with plastic sheeting and duct tape [a ridiculous suggestion for obvious scientific reasons]. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003