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

 Person

Found in 1306 Collections and/or Records:

[wavey lines] (210367) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-08668-8841
Scope and Contents

The alternating parenthesis are arranged in wave-like veritcal lines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[wavy lines within cube] (100267) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-08733-8907
Scope and Contents

The wavy lines are composed of parenthesis and the sides of the cube are composed of slashes and apostrophes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

we all are potentially sane [red] (710212) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1971

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Identifier: CC-33076-34701
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This typing consists of a complex, square image formed from red typed, joined underline and dash marks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

we all are potentially sane [violet] (710212) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1971

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Identifier: CC-33077-34702
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This typing consists of a complex, square image formed from brown carbon, typed, joined underline and dash marks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

wedding song (220664) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

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Identifier: CC-56086-9999533
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The names of the bride and groom poets, frances and michael [horovitz], are typed in an optical design within a red border of @'s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

[welcome to days to come] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

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Identifier: CC-27839-28972
Scope and Contents

The text is written in red and black capital letters. The text reads both right to left (black) and right to left (red) if the paper is turned over and read on the reverse side. It states,"Welcome to days to come! Shall we forfeit much? Sight, hearing, speech perhaps and thought? In the end our loss is self, the glory our gain." The appropriate punctuation marks are written in red and black as are directional arrows. The letters are written written twice, text over text or mirror image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

wf 2 nudes land / 3 X sunderland (740822) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1974

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Identifier: CC-55893-9999364
Scope and Contents

This poem was composed for Bob Cobbing/Writers Forum Exhibition at Ceolfrith Sunderland. The writing on the recto of one of two poems 'wf,' is visible on the verso as '3 X.' wf is the abbreviation for Bob Cobbimg's press, 'writers forum.' The other poem '2 nudes land' on the recto reads 'sunderland' on the verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Wharton Hood: Strip-Mining Traditional Haiku / curry, jw; Houedard DS; Nichol bp; Basho; Duggan MB; Gorman L., 1988

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Identifier: CC-20772-21177
Scope and Contents

This piece was published in Rampike Vol.6 No.1. curry includes 5 handwritten Haiku poems by Hood (collaged onto pages) written as varients in House of Cards, Runaway Spoon & form the basis for curry's critical text. In a letter to the Sackners, curry notes that Jirgins (editor Rampike) "fucked it up by typesetting all the poems (including the bp Single letter translation!)(i'd provided him with a photocopy of bp's drawn version), rendering my discussion of Hood's handwriting superfluous..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

what dyou mean poetrys like bed? (231161) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1961

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Identifier: CC-57851-10001102
Scope and Contents This is a great poem about the far reaching impact of poetry.nThe Aramaic words 'maran atha' are written towars the end of the poem followed by the repeated phrase 'god come. Wikpedia: 'If one chooses to split the two words as מרנא תא (maranâ thâ), a vocative concept with an imperative verb, then it can be translated as a command to the Lord to come. On the other hand, if one decides that the two words מרן אתא (maran 'athâ), a possessive "Our Lord" and a perfect/preterite verb "has come," are actually more warranted, then it would be seen as a credal expression. This interpretation, "Our Lord has come," is supported by what appears to be an equivalent of this in the early credal acclamation found in the biblical books of Romans 10:9 and 1 Corinthians 12:3, "Jesus is Lord." In general, the recent interpretation has been to select the command option ("Come, Lord!"), changing older decisions to follow the preterite option ("Our Lord has come") as found in the ancient...
Dates: 1961

why many monks know whatimeverythingoeschlupft (290663) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-55850-58820
Scope and Contents

The text zig-zags downward. The Geman word at the end of this poem, 'schlupft' meansslip or stumble in Englsih. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

[Woman Baby Hand] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1954

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Identifier: CC-55372-444222
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According to a personal communication from Charles Verey to the Sackners, Houedard was alternating his time in Prinknash Abbey and Rome, Italy from October 1951 to July 1954. He believed that most of the visual art was done in Rome. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1954

[Woman] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1954

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Identifier: CC-09837-10031
Scope and Contents

This depicts a head and shoulders image of a woman. It is collaged onto a page of Furnival's "Liber Amicorum 1964-1984," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1954