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Political poetry

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1467 Collections and/or Records:

Zen Concrete & etc., 1991

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Identifier: CC-07136-7276
Scope and Contents

This reprinting of levy's concrete poetry was edited by Ingrid Swanberg who acknowledged..."heartfelt thanks to Marvin Sackner for its longstanding belief in this project..." The book is divided into three sections: 1) "Zen Concrete" comprises the entire 23 poem sequence, partly published in Blewointment Press 1967, 2) "& etc." is a wide selection from major poetic works, Cleveland Undercovers and Subterranean Monastery Death Poem, and 3) "afterwords" assembles articles by his friends. The images in this citation include an exhibition of d.a. levy's works as well as works about him that was shown during Art Basel Miami on December 6, 2008. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Zen Concrete & etc. / levy, d.a. ; Swanberg I ; Wagner Dr ; Blazek D ; Taylor K., 1991

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Identifier: CC-07135-7275
Scope and Contents

This reprinting of levy's concrete poetry was edited by Ingrid Swanberg who acknowledged..."heartfelt thanks to Marvin Sackner for its longstanding belief in this project..." The book is divided into three sections: 1) "Zen Concrete" comprises the entire 23 poem sequence, partly published in Blewointment Press 1967, 2) "& etc." is a wide selection from major poetic works, Cleveland Undercovers and Subterranean Monastery Death Poem, and 3) "afterwords" assembles articles by his friends. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Zeppelins / McCabe, Chris ; Brecht G ; Miro J ; Apollinaire G ; Cendrars B ; Herbert G., 2008

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Identifier: CC-51521-72619
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The Sackners met Chris McCabe, Libratian of the Saison Poetry Library in London in the company of Sam Winston. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

ZONG! / Philip, M. NourbeSe., 2008

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Identifier: CC-52540-73669
Scope and Contents Wikepedia: The Zong Massacre was a mass-killing of African slaves that took place on November 29th, 1781, on the Zong, a British slave ship owned by James Gregson and colleagues in a Liverpool slave-trading firm. The resulting court case, brought as a civil action by the ship-owners seeking compensation from the insurers for the slave-traders' lost "cargo", was a landmark in the battle against the African slave trade of the eighteenth century. The term "Zong Massacre" was not universally used at the time. It was usually called "The Zong Affair," the term "massacre" being used mainly by those considered to be "dangerous radicals," as late eighteenth-century politics stood. At the time, the killing of slaves"”individually or en masse"”was not considered to be murder, at least legally. In English law, the act was completely legal and could be freely admitted to the highest court in the land, without danger of prosecution.The publicity over this case was, however, one of the factors...
Dates: 2008