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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1435 Collections and/or Records:

Will Go Anywhere You Want Do Any / Rubini, Gail., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-35307-37041
Scope and Contents

The title is printed in lower case on the top edge of the photograph of two casually dressed young persons, one is a man, the other a androgenous woman or man. They appear to be smoking pot. The photograph was part of a student portfolio from RISD from 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Window / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995

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Identifier: CC-12954-13246
Scope and Contents

The image depicts an impressionist painting of a seascape by P.W. Steer with scattered small whitecaps on the waves. The latter serve as a metaphor for the "Window" in this context which signifies the tin foil strips scattered from aircraft to confuse enemy radar during WW II. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Wo warst du, Gott? / Renate Varnhorn., 2001

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Identifier: CC-36681-38495
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The title translated as "What is your view of God? is repetitively machine stitched in repeating rows with the endthreads left intentionally long as part of the design. The title is also printed as a headline in the newspaper which is folded in half. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Wo warst du, Gott? / Renate Varnhorn., 2001

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Identifier: CC-36681-38495
Scope and Contents

The title translated as "What is your view of God? is repetitively machine stitched in repeating rows with the endthreads left intentionally long as part of the design. The title is also printed as a headline in the newspaper which is folded in half. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

[Woman Jailed for Molesting 12-Yr.-Old Boy] / Clark, Larry., 1992

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Identifier: CC-20099-20493
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Acquired as a result of a financial donation to Printed Matter bookstore at Dia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Women In The Radical Movement / levy, d.a.., 1968

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Identifier: CC-33535-35185
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This collage is dated October 1968; levy commited suicide on November 24, 1968. This was one of the Madison Collages that did not make it into publication in Quixote magazine. levy inscribed on the verso, "Blowup front cover." However, the magazine that held the photocopies of the Madison Collages used a cover by Tom Kryss. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Word From The North / Anselm Hollo, editor & translator., 1965

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Identifier: CC-51234-72322
Scope and Contents

This is an anthology of poems by Finnish poets. This was one of the books seized by the Cleveland Police from Jim Lowell's Asphodel Bookshop because of obscenity of which none appear in the book. The only mildly controversial poem deals with the Vietnam war. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Word Press: Five Poems. No.1 / William John Watkins., 1968

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Identifier: CC-31926-33451
Scope and Contents

Watkins' poems were composed in opposition to the policies of President Lyndon Baines Johnson in the Vietnam. This periodical was editied by Richard Van Der Voort of Southwestern College, Chula Vista, California. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Working It Out / Scher, Paula; Rittner, Jennifer., 2006

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Identifier: CC-44888-47060
Scope and Contents

This is an illustration for an essay by Claudia Goldin which makes the point that women are not giving up careers for home and family. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Wormwood Review, The. No.32 / Marvin Malone, editor ; levy da ; Wagner Dr ; Depew W ; Fox H ; Crow D ; Fraser D., 1968

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Identifier: CC-48101-69124
Scope and Contents

This issue has a section of several poems by Hugh Fox. It also incudes two visual poems by d.a. levy. The cover depicts six block poems by Wally Depew. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968