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Reversal poem

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 105 Collections and/or Records:

rugbydeus / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-57148-10000478
Scope and Contents

Houedard has written "rugbydeus" on the lower right of the paper in red ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

shotsuns sunstoys / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-55750-22335
Scope and Contents

The title "shotsuns sunstoys " reads the same upside down. The other reversals on this card are " yeah yeah" and "yeh yah." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Snap Deus / Mayer, Peter; Jones, Oswald., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-55706-54668
Scope and Contents

This poem is derived in terms of its text from Dom Sylvester Houedard (dsh as publisher). The typography is based upon Houedard's reversal ppem of the same tiotle. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

[study for silent & agile] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-08868-9043
Scope and Contents

This page is a study for a poem of the same name on clear acetate. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

The MInd of a Master Brain Teaser / Alter, Alexandra; Kim S., 2011

 Item
Identifier: CC-52512-73640
Scope and Contents

This article is subtitled "Creating: Scott Kim, Puzzle Maker." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

tiny huit / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-55747-22332
Scope and Contents

The title "tiny huit " reads the same upside down. The other reversal poem on this card is "times semit," with semit presumably an abbbreviation for semitic. Finally, illegible writing is present in the upper left corner of the card. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

toysun/unshot / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-55753-22337
Scope and Contents

Houedard writes "for tom lodge..." on the top of the card. The definition of toysun is unknown despite a internet search. A panel ar the top depicts the reversal poem, ip/di. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

turnings xmas69 / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

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Identifier: CC-53338-59714
Scope and Contents

Houedard wrote this poem with his typical printed letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

wf 2 nudes land / 3 X sunderland (740822) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-55893-9999364
Scope and Contents

This poem was composed for Bob Cobbing/Writers Forum Exhibition at Ceolfrith Sunderland. The writing on the recto of one of two poems 'wf,' is visible on the verso as '3 X.' wf is the abbreviation for Bob Cobbimg's press, 'writers forum.' The other poem '2 nudes land' on the recto reads 'sunderland' on the verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

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

 Item
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

Wordplay: Ambigrams and Reflections on the Art of Ambigrams 2nd Edition / Langdon, John ; Hofstadter D ; Kim S., 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-44326-46474
Scope and Contents

The reversal poems (ambigrams) in this book along with their documentation are by Langdon himself. These works are reminiscent of the reversal poems composed by Dom Sylvester Houedard. This second edition is expanded with 50 new ambigrams. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005