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Houedrad draws a diagram describing how this reversal poem is to be set up on a looking glass.On the lower left side is inscribed " for ihf" e.g. Ian Hamilton Finlay. On the lower right an additional poem is drawn in rectangles that reads "louez" and "longs." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Houedrad draws a diagram describing how this reversal poem is to be set up on a looking glass. His instructions are "this version may be printed on thick white (card) to stand on looking glass best wld be for card to be such that it can be bent thus." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The complete reversal poem reads "grove sings river asong" with each word written in a column. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The lower left of this card depicts the letters l s d which when reversed p s l and reads "poem for cahc." Laribus sacrum is an expression related to Greek Gods of houses. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Liberte is a dog breed and ilpeset is ?. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each name is made up of a merged typewriter character: z and o. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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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.

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'Weid' is a Scottish and Irish varient of 'weed' and eu in French means 'got' in Engish. This poem is an anti-Vietnam war poem that deals with burning the fields of that country into weeds with Napalm 'got' by U.S. military forces. Houedard may also be referring to 'field day,' that originally referred to a set of military exercises, a term utilized in 'A Scheme for Equipping and Maintaining Sixteen Men of War' (1747), e.g., These periodical intervals of eating and drinking...are to the Citizens as it were Field Days, for improving ...their Valour [internet]. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This poem reverses when turned 180 degrees. Wikipedia: Baron Samedi (Baron Saturday, also Baron Samdi, Bawon Samedi, or Bawon Sanmdi) is one of the Loa of Haitian Voodoo. Samedi is a Loa of the dead, along with Baron's numerous other incarnations Baron Cimetière, Baron La Croix, and Baron Kriminel. He is the head of the Guédé family of Loa, or an aspect of them, or possibly their spiritual father. 'Samedi' means 'Saturday' in French. His wife is the Loa Maman Brigitte. He is usually depicted with a top hat, black tuxedo (dinner jacket), dark glasses, and cotton plugs in the nostrils, as if to resemble a corpse dressed and prepared for burial in the Haitian style. He has a white, frequently skull-like face (or actually has a skull for a face) and speaks in a nasal voice. He is a sexual Loa, frequently represented by phallic symbols and is noted for disruption, obscenity, debauchery, and having a particular fondness for tobacco and rum. Additionally, he is the Loa of sex and...

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This page contains 11 concrete, mirror image and reversal poems each enclosed in ink squares.The handwritten name "Nicholas Logsdale," the owner and founder of Lisson Gallery in London is on the l.r.side. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.