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In this issue, Cavan McCarthy essay, "trad/kin kon: The poetry magazine scene" surveys small mags world wide publishing concrete poetry. Houedard designed the cover and also signed this issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this issue, Cavan McCarthy essay, "trad/kin kon: The poetry magazine scene" surveys small mags world wide publishing concrete poetry. Houedard designed the cover and also signed this issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The beginning of the title translates to 'they cross.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Houedard brings Cinicolo up to date with suggestions on whom to reach for showing new work including Cobbing, Cage and Mark Boyle. Houedard mentions his new lodgings and hopes Cinicola is "cashly better now & not starving." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Houedard hopes that Cinicola's "arrangement with dr n works smoothly - I happen to know he can be very generous & accommodating." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Houedard thanks Cinicolo for the proofs he received writing "millegrazie for all work input & fine output." Also that he hopes to "hear soon from furnival" and "markboyle postcard cld be back cover & title cld be quote 'dsh: your work is a snowstorm in negative' (or whatever the phrase was)?' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Houedard suggests that Charles Verey "use the foto of the kencox electric portrait of me that john furnival is using for the poster & card." He also writes that " i am quite happy for you [Cinicolo] to take all design initiatives." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The message typed in red to Charles Verey reads "URGENT i shall try DEPEARTELY to send you extra info to bring bibliography &c up to date" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The information typed in red to Charles Verey concerns Houedard's work for a catalog in production along with Antony Everitt and Chris Carrel. The card also contains two small optical black images typed with slashes and dashes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The information typed in red to Charles Verey concerns Houedard's work for a catalog in production along with Antony Everitt and Chris Carrel. The card also contains two small optical black images typed with slashes and dashes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Houedard writes/types to Cincolo 3 about corrections to be made for catalog. Houedard closes the letter stating "however i suppose it is probably too late to do anything about it at all - if so then ok - it will certainly be quite all right - but it wld have been nice to use the markboyle card & quote it in title." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Houedard continues to write/type to Cincola 3 about corrections to be made for catalog.His corrections are marked out in green ink through out the page -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Houedard continues to write/type to Cincola 3 about corrections to be made for catalog.His corrections are marked out in green ink through out the page -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Houedard writes/types to Cincola 3 some comments about the illustrations for the catalog. He states "that all 10 have been selected from work done in the brief period of 17 days from 23 jan to 8 feb 1971 i have numbered the 10 illustrations in chronological sequence." Houedard also requests Cinicola to send the illustrations to John Cage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Houedard writes/types to Cincola 3 "additional note by me to go on p.70." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Houedard writes/types to Cincola 3 "this is a lowercase abc i developed fr" m the ROBIN FARQUHARSON caps - you cld use this on cover? inside? Houedard then types an alphabet of upper case adn describes it as "the original caps abc by robin - he uses brackets too - i kept to slash &-dash." At the page bottom are examples of twon typed a's described by dsh as "infinely variable in size & weight" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Wikipedia: Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 "“ 22 November 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts. Huxley spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. Aldous Huxley was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist, and he was latterly interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism. He is also well known for advocating and taking psychedelics. By the end of his life Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents It appears that Bob Cobbing was the author/editor of this book that mostly consisted of works of Houedard, several of which are held by the Sackner Archive. Cobbing writes in this book of Houedard's poetry (1949-1972) that he deserves publication of a large body of work because he was important in his innovative religious thinking, philosophy, poetry and criticism. He mentions that much of the material is held by the Sackner Archive and anyone 'doing the big book' would need to see and be inspired by that collection. The current book was edited by Cobbing and/or Thomas Clark.The composition of Houedard's typewriter poems using the portable Olivetti Lettera 22 as described by Houedard In Mary Ellen Solt's 'A World Look at Concrete Poetry': "there are 86 type units available on my machine for use w/2-color or no ribbon - or with carbons of various colors - the maximum size surface w/out folding is abt 10" diagonal--the ribbons may be of various ages--several ribbons may be used on a...