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

 Person

Found in 1306 Collections and/or Records:

womb word 1 (051165) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-56015-59686
Scope and Contents

This version of the poem is typed on the top portion of the page in four columns. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

womb word 2 (051165) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1965

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Identifier: CC-56016-886644
Scope and Contents

This version of the poem is spaced throughout the page in two columns. It contains the date 051165 handwritten probably by Houedard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

womb word (051165) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-31367-32844
Scope and Contents

The poem was may have been printed much later than its creation. The Sackner Archive holds the original of this poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

wordo worko / mosko mosgo: esperanto / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

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Identifier: CC-57149-10000479
Scope and Contents

Houedard has written the reversal poem "esperanto" in red ink at the lower right. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Works 1965-1972 Volume 1, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27400-28443
Scope and Contents

This book was compiled by jw curry from unpublished (?) concrete poems of bp Nichol's early work which were composed by typings or writings. curry had access to these works through cataloging of Nichol's archive. These works emphasize the diversity and intelligence of Nichol's typewriter poetry; the calligraphic works are presented with far less examples. The cited authors in this book consist of those whom Nichol composed a poem in their style or as an homage to them. The covers of the book have been collaged with a dust jacket created from an overprinting of a cover by Coach House Press entitled, 'New Wave Canada.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

xyzmas / newyear poem (271167) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-56259-59713
Scope and Contents

The poem is typed one word per line and reads, "wide love eros a gape." Houedard has written "final version" in the upper right corner of the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[YA YA YA for Charles] (040764) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Cameron C., 1964

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Identifier: CC-57870-10001122
Scope and Contents

The centered typing has two vertical lines of M's and m's emerging from a cloud of densely typed B's surrounded by four YA's. Charles is Charles Cameron. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

[yellow yellow yellow] (070963) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-57865-10001117
Scope and Contents

This typing consists of a zig-zag column of the word yellow and nine words up from the botton the single word green.This is conceptually similar to silencio by Gomringer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Yes But If (861205) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1986

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Identifier: CC-55532-59756
Scope and Contents

This is the most recent poem of Houedard's in the Sackner Archive (1987) and appears to be a Christmas/New Years poem. Its layout is 1/2 a mandala. On the verso, these dates appear, viz., 861225 and 870101. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

yo catch a whitemanby his manifesto / Houedard, Dom Sylvester, teacher; students of bath academy of art., 1969

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Identifier: CC-55962-9999430
Scope and Contents

The print designs were made by students at the Bath Academy of Art from suggestions made by Houedard as to their themes. The Sackners originally owned two portfolios, one of the numbered edition, the other of an unnumbered edition signed by Houedard on the title page. A water leak in the house near these porfolios completely ruined one of the portfolio covers and damaged the other; two prints that orinally had several artistikc incisions were runed. The print collaged onto one of the portfolios was salvaged for a newly made substitute portfolio. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

yonimindlotus (290367) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-56200-9999644
Scope and Contents

This page is typed solely with dashes in subtle circular shapes with a distinctive blank circular space in the center of the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

you noh / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-55749-9999305
Scope and Contents

The title "you noh " reads the same upside down. The other reversals are 'dew map,' pep dad,' 'wow mom' and 'east sea.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968