2010.54.4062

Mission Grafica ~ printer

I'm Going To Plant a Heart on the Earth

1983

20.75 in HIGH x 16.62 in WIDE
(52.71 cm HIGH x 42.23 cm WIDE)

All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.

2010.54.4062

inscription: Bottom text reads, "Sponsored by NIcaraguan Informatoin Center/ ConsuLate of Nicaragua/ A.D.E.L.A./ Roque Dalton Cultural Brigade/ Stanford University/ P.E.N. West Translation Center/ The San Francisco Art Institute/ Design and Printing by Mission Grafica 83 M.C.C."

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Poster has a white background with redtext. In the center is an image of the earth with a female figure in a sitting position holding a heart in her hands. The poster reads at the top,"I'm going to Plant a Heart on the Earth/ By Rosario Murillo/ Secretary General, Association of Sandinista Cultural Workers." The poems starts with,"I grow like a plant/ without remorse and without stupidity/ toward the hours loosened from the day/ pure and secure as a plant/ without crucifixtion...." and ends with,"...a heart unnerving, unnameable/ something simple and sweet/ a heart that has loved."

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