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D S H (Dom Sylvester Houédard), 1924-1992

 Person

Found in 1306 Collections and/or Records:

memorial poem the authorized translation of ken - werbhehtmerf - / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Cox K., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56957-10000321
Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Messagio Galore take VI / curry, jw, editor; curry jw; Purkis C; Ridley S; Erskine M; Wilkins G; Provost R; Lavery J; Power K; Read R; Four Horsemen; Houedard DS; Basmajian S; Jandl E; Dufrene F; Depero F; Nichol bp; Hood W; Zappa F; Cage J; Marinetti FT; Patton M; Gauvreau C; Kerouac J; Shikatani G; levy da; lefler P; Haines R; Barlow J; Cobbing B; Ashley R., 2009

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Identifier: CC-56950-10000314
Scope and Contents

Ten copies of this documentation of the performace organized by jw curry were published. Eight were given to the participants. Therefore, the Sackner Archive has one of the only two in the public domain. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

meth death (110964) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

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Identifier: CC-55913-9999379
Scope and Contents Internet: 'Meth', an abbreviation for the highly addictive drug, methamphetamine, that was discovered in Japan in 1919. The crystalline powder was soluble in water, thus making it easy for injection. It was also discovered that smoking the drug created the same effects as injecting. The Japanese army used methamphetamine during World War II to prevent sleepiness and was also provided it to their pilots during Kamakazi operations. After the war, the drug became available to the public and subsequently produced a major outbreak of abuse, especially among the young people. Bikers were accused of introducing the drug into the psychedelic "60's causing violence. Since then it has been known by many names, such as Trailer Park Meth and BathTub Meth, because it can be cooked up so cheaply and easily. It is the drug of choice for long distance truckers and college students pulling all-nighters. In the USA, over 700 methamphetamine-related deaths were documented in the United States in...
Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Mind Ache (750214)] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Cinicolo 3, Donato., 1975

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Identifier: CC-57682-10000946
Scope and Contents

These pages consisti of a finished drawing and two studies for a card by dc3 and the poem by dsh. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

MIND ACHE / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1975

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Identifier: CC-55103-9998923
Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

mind poet cold certitude (January 1968) / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1968

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Identifier: CC-56876-10000241
Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

mind poet cold certitude (January 1968) / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1968

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Identifier: CC-56876-10000241
Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

mini poster series: the faithful depated / join the ultra marines / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-55752-22336
Scope and Contents

In the title, there is a spelling error - depated instead of departed! -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Mini-Posters / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-09323-9506
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a minimalist, constellation poem taken from found text that Houedard has placed on black paper (stock or inked paper). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)

Mini-Posters / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-09324-9507
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a minimalist, constellation poem taken from found text that Houedard has placed on black paper (stock or inked paper). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)

Mini-Posters / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-09325-9508
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a minimalist, constellation poem taken from found text that Houedard has placed on black paper (stock or inked paper). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)

Miniature Portraits / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1967

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Identifier: CC-56859-10000224
Scope and Contents

A miniature silhouette is collaged on the top center. Below is a found advertisement that reads "Miniature Portraits Painted on ivory from photographs .London Exhibitor. Twelve Guineas." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

Miniature Portraits / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1967

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Identifier: CC-56859-10000224
Scope and Contents

A miniature silhouette is collaged on the top center. Below is a found advertisement that reads "Miniature Portraits Painted on ivory from photographs .London Exhibitor. Twelve Guineas." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

mjq (010763) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-08749-8923
Scope and Contents

The identity of mjq is unknown to the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

MO OON (JAN 20 1968) / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1968

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Identifier: CC-56826-10000194
Scope and Contents

A green sheet of cellophane covers the poem object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

MO OON (JAN 20 1968) / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1968

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Identifier: CC-56826-10000194
Scope and Contents

A green sheet of cellophane covers the poem object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

model of 16-phase poemultiple: a full octogram / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-08691-8864
Scope and Contents

This poem, made up of 23 images, is composed of words, periods, and dashes. This work was reproduced in the Dom Sylvester houedard book edited by Nicola Simpson, "Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter: The Life and Work of Dom Sylvester Houedard" and is stored in the binder labeled DSH London 2012. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Moire (291065) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1965

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Identifier: CC-08878-9054
Scope and Contents

Houedard used a grid of 4 L's to produce moire patterns. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

moire typestract pome 6 for john furnival (091263) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-09829-10023
Scope and Contents

This optical poem was created by typing overlying slashes. It was removed from a page of Furnival's "Liber Amicorum 1964-1984," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

[monks monks monks] (060963) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-57861-10001111
Scope and Contents

DSH has typed five columns with seven lines of the words 'monks' with the following different wods randomley placed: flies, poetry, work, prayer, ? , weather. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

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