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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 263 Collections and/or Records:

The Moralist, 2002

 Item — Box 84: [Barcode: 31858072538238]
Identifier: CC-39074-41012
Scope and Contents

This work features ambiguities related to censorship. The label of two cigarette packs, "Lucky Strike" is cancelled to leave only "Lust." The cancelling device is a large block of wood with black paint at its tip that serves as phallic symbol. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

The Nuclear Fan, 1984

 Item — Box 610: [Barcode: 31858072460862]
Identifier: CC-44062-46178
Scope and Contents

Each leaf of the fan depicts the same atomic explosion and a single word caption. The words form the following sentence, "This is only a test." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Only Good Luddite Is a Dead Luddite , 1963

 Item — Folder 58: [Barcode: 31858072537925]
Identifier: CC-13229-13530
Scope and Contents

Luddites were bands of workers in England (1811-1816) organized to destroy machinery under the belief that its use diminished employment. Ned Luddite, an 18th century Leicestershire worker originated the idea. Furnival depicts a man's body flattened by a Rube Goldberg like machine with numbers streaming from upper pipes of the machine. Stored in Odds & Sods. Depictd in Furnival's "Lost for Words" (2011 page 138. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

The Pandemonium Spirit, 1986

 Item — Box 341: [Barcode: 31858072491263]
Identifier: CC-21381-21792
Scope and Contents

According to Kettner, "First (and only) edition. Average press run for Bomb Shelter: 300-500 copies. From brief author's introduction 'In these writings and collages some "other," the "rawspirit," does the speaking. For that reason any attempt to understand this in a linear or logical context will be difficult or impossible. I see pandemonium as a break from the strictures of codified behavior into a liberated existence.'" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

The Poor Fisherman, 1987

 Item — Folder 61: [Barcode: 31858072537958]
Identifier: CC-12494-12721
Scope and Contents

The image in this poem has been modified from a figurative painting by Puvis de Chavnannes through addition of a French republican tricolor button to the mast of his boat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The Search for the Reason Why: New and Selected Poems, 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-46329-49053
Scope and Contents

John Bennett contributed an introduction and Kryss writes a biographical statement. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

The Text Bursts , 1968

 Item — Folder 48: [Barcode: 31858072537826]
Identifier: CC-13081-13376
Scope and Contents

A page from a periodical dealing with a political issue in Wales is cut jaggedly down the center. The printed black name, Wales, is repeated in its opening with progressive enlargement of the typeface dimensions. The uppermost "Wales" is printed in red, large capital letters. On the verso, the caption, "subscribe to Second Aeon" is printed in handwritten black letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

The Thing, No. 2: Anne Walsh, 2008

 Item — Box 265: [Barcode: 31858072460540]
Identifier: CC-48979-70017
Scope and Contents

This publication is edited by John Herschend and Will Rogan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Thermidor, 1994

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-12767-13032
Scope and Contents

Stephan Bann provides an explanation of the poem in the accompanying leaflet as follows. Thermidor was the month in the French Revolutionary calendar when the summer heat was its most intense, and the grain at its ripest. It was also the month, in 1794, when Robespierre and his followers met their deaths at the guillotine. In the image of this poem, the abrupt cleavage of the word, THER MIDOR, and of the figured sheaf of flowers, suggest the termination of the revolution in its Jacobian sense. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Thornier / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Boulton, Janet., 1997

 Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]
Identifier: CC-34974-36691
Scope and Contents

The print depicts a thorn with barbs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Through a Dark Wood/Midway, 1976

 Item — Box 190: [Barcode: 31858072459609]
Identifier: CC-11914-12136
Scope and Contents

Relates to the World War II battle of Midway. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Through a Dark Wood/Midway, 1975

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-11915-12138
Scope and Contents

A folded sheet onto which is printed a critical text by Stephen Bann accompanies this medallion. The image is a metaphor for the World War II battle of Midway in the South Pacific which was fought with airpower rather that ship to ship sightings. The text accompanying this work is stored in a box of Finlay booklets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Thunderbolt Steers All, 1975

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-12423-12650

Truisms and Essays, 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-29934-31325
Scope and Contents

This book lists of Holzer's aphorisms in bold and colored typography translated from English to other languages. Most have a political slant. The print lists the aphorisms in alphabetical order. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983