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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1442 Collections and/or Records:

Bogendruck: Vergrossern! Vergrossen die Freude!. No.8/Jul., 1972

 Item — Folder 71: [Barcode: 31858072538063]
Identifier: CC-22803-23238
Scope and Contents

Image taken from a postcard depicting Adolf Hitler in 1936. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Boiling Coffee / Nonas, Richard., 1980

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Identifier: CC-38343-40243
Scope and Contents

The text is written in large, block letters, expresses various situations. It is accompanied by illustrations that depict one young and another older Hispanic man. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Bouquet / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-11068-11283
Scope and Contents

Image depicts a whellbarrow with heads in an abstract presentation presumably an imagined scene from the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

BP / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1997

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Identifier: CC-35391-37126
Scope and Contents

The title, BP, signifies British Petroleum and the poem on the pages is the word, "Tanker" with its letters widely spaced to indicate the enormity of these ocean going vessels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Broadside #7:[Books That Have Been Banned] / Wayzgoose Press; Joyce J; Dante; Miller H., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-00469-481
Scope and Contents

Lists authors whose books have been burned or banned from Confusius to the present. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Broadside No.9: Germany, 1993

 Item — Folder 73: [Barcode: 31858072538089]
Identifier: CC-34958-36673
Scope and Contents

The print depicts a stylized broken arm with a fractured Swatstika arm band with the hand aflame. The smoke from the fire consists of a political address in 1993 set in bold type by Helmut Kohl, the leader of Germany dealing with solving the world's problems with money. This overlays a text with fainter type dealing with protection of the environment. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Broadside of the Month Club: The American in Me. No.12/Dec / Penelope Houston., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44516-46666
Scope and Contents

Note that one cardboard folder houses all the Broadsides of the Month. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Brount: An Idyll / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Gillanders, Robin., 1995

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Identifier: CC-34976-36693
Scope and Contents

Brount was the name of Robespierre's dog. This print is a reproduction of one of the pages in the book of the same title. The text of the caption is taken from Hector Fleischmann's "Robespierre and the Women He Loved." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Brount: An Idyll / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Gillanders, Robin., 1995

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Identifier: CC-12937-13229
Scope and Contents

The short texts concern Robespierre and his dog Brount. The photographic illustrations are of Brount's dish, with his name inscribed on it, in various interior and garden settings. The Brount ceramic dish was made by David Ballentyne, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Buchstaben Halde Konsonantenn-Akkumulation [Letter Heap Accumulation of Consonants] / Peter Daniel., 1991 - 1992

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Identifier: CC-27737-28857
Scope and Contents

Skillfully cut, glued together, styrofoam Hebrew letters are stacked one on top of another in a random, pyramid shape. The letters may be a metaphor for victims of the Holocaust. The glass box could represent Kristelnacht, when the Nazis destroyed the glass windows of Jewish shops and burned Jewish books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991 - 1992

Buchstaben Halde Konsonantenn-Akkumulation [Letter Heap Accumulation of Consonants] / Peter Daniel., 1991-1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-27737-28857
Scope and Contents

Skillfully cut, glued together, styrofoam Hebrew letters are stacked one on top of another in a random, pyramid shape. The letters may be a metaphor for victims of the Holocaust. The glass box could represent Kristelnacht, when the Nazis destroyed the glass windows of Jewish shops and burned Jewish books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991-1992

Buddhist 3rd Class Junkmail Oracle. No.1/Jue / da levy, editor ; Cunliffe D., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-27309-27919
Scope and Contents

This issue carries the header, "The Buddhist 3rd Class Junkmail Oracle" and is the successor to "Swamp Erie Pipe Dream." It is stated that this first issue is dedicated to r.j.s. (poet, publisher and martyr) and to paul robinson (folksinger). The cover collage was made from the prints of the Japanese artist Shiko Munakata. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[Burnt Book], 1995

 Item — Box 193: [Barcode: 31858072459633]
Identifier: CC-05717-5824
Scope and Contents

The scorched, mutilated book wrapped in an incomplete wire grid is Nicastri's visual metaphor for the Holocaust and the Nazi burning of Jewish books. The wooden pine box without nails signifies the Jewish coffin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995