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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

1968, A History in Verse / Sanders, Edward ; Ginsberg A ; Kupferberg T ; Rubin J ; Leary T ; Bly R ; Berrigan T ; levy da ; Hoffman A ; McClure M ; Guillevic E ; Hollo A ; Crumb R ; Burroughs WS., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-30359-31774
Scope and Contents

This long, biographic poem deals with Sanders' music group, the Fugs, and the political events of 1968, detailing among others the ravages of the Viet Nam war, James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, the Yippies, the CIA, J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the Chicago Seven. There are descriptions of the assasinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King as well as small black and white scanned, photographic, documentary images, and line drawings of hierogyphics and fragments of calligraphic texts scattered among the poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Less Newspoems / Kupferberg, Tuli., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-43138-45194
Scope and Contents

The book consists of newsprint pages with like covers. Includes reproduced newspaper clippings, found art, advertisements, collages. Poems accompany and embellish select clippings. Cover is photo of VP Nelson Rockefeller giving someone the finger. Another news photo is Virginia police frisking a couple Hari Krishna's posing as Santas. Stored in Yeah magazine box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Listen to the Mocking Bird: Satiric Songs to Tunes You Know / Kupferberg, Tuli., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-49570-70618
Scope and Contents

This is the first printing. In this book, Kupferberg writes new lyrics for established popular songs. Stored in "Yeah" box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Teach Yourself Fucking / Kupferberg, Tuli., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-41328-43311
Scope and Contents

Stored in Yeah magazine box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Yeah: Kill for Peace. No.10/Promotion / Tulli Kupferberg, editor ; Kupferberg T., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-46666-49396
Scope and Contents

This is the same cover as issue No.10 but consists of a listing of Birth Press publications as well as the "Fuck for Peace Poem." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964