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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

h as h is h dsh / hashish dsh / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-55755-9999306
Scope and Contents

Houedard writes "for steve - tarig - chas" on the left side of the card. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

H as H is H [light yellow background] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-55870-9999356
Scope and Contents

The drawing reads "hashish" and is drawn on paper.The folded page contains the word hashish and beneath it the typed (H-as-H-is H) where both the capital H's and the parenthesis are in red.The calligraphic writing states "not a reflecting poem." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

H as H is H [violet background] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-55868-9999354
Scope and Contents

The poem reads "hashish." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

H as H is H [yellow background] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-55869-9999355
Scope and Contents

The poem reads "hashish." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

H / Johnson, Nicholas., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-45198-47383
Scope and Contents

The book appears to be a facsimile of the authors sketch book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Ha-Ha! / John Furnival., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-10715-10924
Scope and Contents

This poem object is depicted in Furnival's "Lost for Words" (2011) page 31. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Ha-Ha! / John Furnival., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-10715-10924
Scope and Contents

This poem object is depicted in Furnival's "Lost for Words" (2011) page 31. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Had I the Heavens' Embroidered Cloths / Tom Phillips; Alice Wood., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-39049-40987
Scope and Contents Tom Phillips, with the assistance of Alice Wood, created this quilt from fragments of fabric from costumes Phillips was designing for "Winter's Tale" at the Globe Theatre in London. Phillips writes, "For Autolycus I had supervised the making of a large patchwork cloak and was fascinated to see how humdrum pieces of the cloths of the world rather than of heaven when juxtaposed sang out as rich and rare. Some of the 'dye and drab' of the cloak of Autolycus started off this present piece." The text is from a poem by the Irish poet, William Butler Yeats titled "He wishes for the cloths of heaven." The poem reads, "Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, - Enwrought with the golden and silver light, - The blue and the dim and the dark cloths - Of night and light and half-light, - I would spread the cloths under your feet - But I, being poor, have only my dreams; - I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; - Tread softly because you tread on my dreams..." The letters of the poem are...
Dates: 1997

Had I the Heavens' Embroidered Cloths / Tom Phillips; Alice Wood., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-39049-40987
Scope and Contents Tom Phillips, with the assistance of Alice Wood, created this quilt from fragments of fabric from costumes Phillips was designing for "Winter's Tale" at the Globe Theatre in London. Phillips writes, "For Autolycus I had supervised the making of a large patchwork cloak and was fascinated to see how humdrum pieces of the cloths of the world rather than of heaven when juxtaposed sang out as rich and rare. Some of the 'dye and drab' of the cloak of Autolycus started off this present piece." The text is from a poem by the Irish poet, William Butler Yeats titled "He wishes for the cloths of heaven." The poem reads, "Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, - Enwrought with the golden and silver light, - The blue and the dim and the dark cloths - Of night and light and half-light, - I would spread the cloths under your feet - But I, being poor, have only my dreams; - I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; - Tread softly because you tread on my dreams..." The letters of the poem are...
Dates: 1997