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Typewriter poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1767 Collections and/or Records:

Fill in This Space / Crane, Michael., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-20390-20787
Dates: 1974
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

fire time / Depew, Wally., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-55091-9998918
Dates: 1985
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Fishtank: Guppies / curry, jw., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-19875-20263
Scope and Contents

This is a contemporary version of Morgenstern's poem, Fishes, in which abstract signs (in curry's version, the typed parentheses) are used to depict the images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

[flown music] / Sharkey, John J.., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-57208-10000535
Scope and Contents

The poem makes references to Schoemberg's music. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

FOR AH (230864) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-56368-59674
Scope and Contents

The page is divided into six different spaces with varying typed poetic forms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for alan neame (091164) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-08655-8828
Scope and Contents Hoho Eleison typed in poem refers to the Gregorian chant. Internet: Alan John Neame, only son of Alan Bruce (1888-1967) and Annie Victoria Neame, was born on 24 January 1924 in the Kentish village of Selling. His interest in family history started with a childhood discovery that a large part of the village churchyard was filled with Neame memorials. This early interest, nurtured by elderly relatives with vivid memories of his ancestors living in the mid 19th century, became a fascination that would endure throughout the seventy-six years of his life. Alan Neame graduated from Wadham College, Oxford just after the war, and taught modern languages at Cheltenham College before moving on to lecture at the University of Baghdad. After further lecturing posts in various other Middle Eastern capitals, he gave up teaching for writing and was soon to return to England and to the village of his birth that he so loved. Alan was a religious scholar, working for three years as Literary Editor...
Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

For Anselm Hollo (120863) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-08750-8924
Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for bill butler [1] - let him make the next move / for dave wildpigeon (171068) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56297-58963
Scope and Contents

This page contains two poems, one for Bill Butler and one for Dave Wildpigeon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for bill butler[2] - let him make the next move (151068) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56319-9999743
Scope and Contents

This page contains a poem for Bill Butler and two drawings in the lower right corner. Written in red ink in the lower right corner by Houedard is 'iso lithic shadow games." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for eugen: frau an [illegible] (130764) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Gomringer E., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-55828-58839
Scope and Contents

The dedication of the woman's name to eugen [gomringer], one of the founders of concrete poetry, in this poem is illegible. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for george dowden 2 (120664) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-56284-9999722
Scope and Contents

This poem is one of three that form a sequence. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for george [dowden] 3 / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-56084-9999531
Scope and Contents

George in the title of this poem refers to the British poet, George Dowden. The handwritten leaflet reads, 'these 3 form a sequence & go together as a set.' The other two components are catalogued individually in the Sackner Archive, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for george dowden (120664) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Dowden G., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-09378-9564
Scope and Contents

George Dowden in the title of this poem refers to the British poet. Moire effects in this poem were produced by overtyping tight grids of letters. This work was reproduced in the Dom Sylvester houedard book edited by Nicola Simpson, "Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter: The Life and Work of Dom Sylvester Houedard" and is stored in the binder labeled DSH London 2012. This poem is one of three that form a sequence. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for ihf [ian hamilton finlay] (250663) [me you] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-55549-9999180
Scope and Contents

This poem is laid out in the style of ee cummings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for i/j (120663 & 130663) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-55734-58790
Scope and Contents

This piece consists of two poems in which complete and incomplete solid rectangles are formed from densely packed m's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

For Jane Eyre / Murphy, Peter., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-06583-6702
Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for john furnival (120763) [MATCHBOXES] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-56060-9999508
Scope and Contents

One image is a rectangle of the words MATCHBOXES and a second image is a free form composed of red m's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for john furnival split dot (120763) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-55818-58811
Scope and Contents

The image is formed solely from slashes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for li (281167) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-56272-59698
Scope and Contents

The poem reads lisson and refers to Nicholas Logsdale's Lisson Gallery in London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for maria & enrique (041266) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-56030-9999482
Scope and Contents

This work contains the names Maria (?) and Enrique (?) in a constructivistic format. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

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