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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 263 Collections and/or Records:

Definitions, 1967

 Item — Box 315: [Barcode: 31858072490836]
Identifier: CC-26474-26943
Scope and Contents

The school notebook format for this book was designed by Eleanor Antin. This is the first edition of the author's first book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Demonstration, 1963

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Identifier: CC-09880-10076
Scope and Contents

This complex collage, an illustration for Jules Verne's "Aound the World in Eighty Days," depicts a parade and a mob scene with American voting slogans and company names. The main image was cut from an engraving done around 1900. An exhibition catalogue of Kolar, Mesens, Schwitters & Hoffmeister at Grosvenor Gallery, st that Hoffmeister "...was the first artist to use typography as a total compositional medium regardless of the meaning of the actual words, concentrating on the purely visual image." Wescher (Collage 1968) wrote that he was the grand master of collage. This collage is depicted in Adolf Hoffmeister This collage is not depicted in the Adolf Hoffmeister book 1902-1973 edited by Karel Srp on page 283. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Details: closed to open, 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-44736-46902
Scope and Contents

This volume illustrates selections from the Swarthmore College Peace Collection exhibition in the List Art Gallery. It consists of 109 details of hands from 90 photographs in the collection arranged in sequence from the most tightly clenched fist to the most opened hand. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Details: closed to open, 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-48777-69811
Scope and Contents

This volume illustrates selections from the Swarthmore College Peace Collection exhibition in the List Art Gallery. It consists of 109 details of hands from 90 photographs in the collection arranged in sequence from the most tightly clenched fist to the most opened hand. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Dingfest, 1973

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Identifier: CC-37314-39165
Scope and Contents

This is a collection of Jandl's poems from 1952 - 1971. Up until 1963, the poems were conventional but in 1963, a constellation appears. Hans Mayer wrote an afterward to the book. The cover consists of a printed text of Jandl's poetic achievements from a historical perspective. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Dingfest 3rd Ed., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-37315-39166
Scope and Contents

This is a collection of Jandl's poems from 1952 - 1971. Up until 1963, the poems were conventional but in 1963, a constellation appears. Hans Mayer wrote an afterward to the book. The cover of this edition consists of a printed poem by Jandl. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Ecologia, 1998

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: D: [Barcode: 31858072491370]
Identifier: CC-36527-38328

Environment Men End, 1999

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: D: [Barcode: 31858072491370]
Identifier: CC-36530-38331

Every Goal Negates. Ludwig Feuerbach, 1985

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-11911-12133
Scope and Contents The poem is printed in red with folded paper shaped like an arrow. It was printed on the Second Anniversary of the First Battle of Little Sparta and its slogan relates to Finlay's dispute with the local tax collectors. Wikipedia: Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (July 28, 1804 "“ September 13, 1872) was a German philosopher and anthropologist best known for his book The Essence of Christianity, which provided a critique of Christianity which strongly influenced generations of later thinkers, including both Karl Marx and Frederich Engels. Feuerbach was the fourth son of the eminent jurist Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, brother of mathematician Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach and uncle of painter Anselm Feuerbach. An associate of Left Hegelian circles, Feuerbach advocated for liberalism, atheism and materialism. Many of his philosophical writings offered a critical analysis of religion. His thought was influential in the development of dialectical materialism, where he is often...
Dates: 1985

Flight from America, 1965

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Identifier: CC-15509-15836
Scope and Contents

John Furnival designed the front and back covers with a concrete poetic theme. This book is stored in Furnival's box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Flowers for Midwinter's Day December 22, 1964

 Item — Folder 3: [Barcode: 31858072459419]
Identifier: CC-22075-22492
Scope and Contents This poster was designed by Sam Kirkpatrick. Bill Butler (1934-1977) who ran the Unicorn Bookshop at No 50 Gloucester Road from 1960 to about 1970. After he closed the shop, Bill moved to South Wales and then later died of a suspected drugs overdose (October 1977), but whether this was suicide or accidental is unclear. Bill was very much part of the alternative lifestyle set in Brighton at that time. One of his own books, which he published himself under the pen name of Hassan Sabbah, was called Leaves of Grass: the Hash Cookbook. Who he was Bill's full name was William Huxford Butler. He was an American beat poet and occultist. He was very tall (over 6 feet). He lived in Over Street, very near to his shop. A specialist bookshop The Unicorn Bookshop used to specialise in modern poetry, stocking the work of Ginsberg and similar American and British poets. Graham Greene, who visited the shop, wrote: "Unicorn is one of the most interesting bookshops in Great Britain." The whole of the...
Dates: 1964

Flowers for Midwinter's Day December 22, 1964

 Item — Folder 3: [Barcode: 31858072459419]
Identifier: CC-21267-21677
Scope and Contents

Design by Sam Kirkpatrick. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Forever Worship the Second Coming, 1968

 Item — Box 350: [Barcode: 31858072490869]
Identifier: CC-23190-23628
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by Tom Kyyss. r.j.s. stands for Robert J. Sigmond, a poet who at age 19 years was incarcerated by the Cleveland authorities for six months because of using marijuana. d.a.levy's poem in this book, "Indictment of the City of Cleveland for Contributing to the Delinquency of Minors" describes that episode. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Formulazioni Non - A, 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-48786-69820
Scope and Contents

The loose sheet that comprises the text reproduces the pages of the original titled book as approximately 5 cm x 4 cm images of the original book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972