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[Letter to Peter Finch] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-09107-9286

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Scope and Contents

Letter deals with a Nitsch (Vienna Action Group) performance that resulted in an obscenity charge by the English legal system and the sending of 3 typestracts to the "Bennington." Mentions that galleries usually charge $15.00 each and that he wants transparency of any item sold. States that Watford College wants him to do typestracts - i.e. not semantic poems and wants response if request is for poems "w/oldfashioned words." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1966

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 letter (typed carbon) (2 pages)) ; 33 x 20 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

shelf binder bedroom 2

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

General: Title provided by Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Published: Prinknash Abbey, England : [Publisher not identified]. Signed by: s [typed] (l.r.- page 2). Nationality of creator: British. General: About 1 total copies. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: RED.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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