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D S H (Dom Sylvester Houédard), 1924-1992

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Found in 174 Collections and/or Records:

from the cosmic typewriter - a somantric diversion [1], 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55545-9999176

from the cosmic typewriter - a somantric diversion [2], 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55546-9999177

From the jeux theologiques - 1949 on, 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55432-59767

Gedicht [overlapping filled typed squares] (170664), 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56698-10000086
Scope and Contents

In this poem, all the squares are typed, not collaged. The original typing is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Gloup and Woup / Cobbing, Bob, editor; Houedard DS; Furnival J; Cox K; Mayer P; Cobbing B; Edmonds T., 1974

 Item — Box 391: [Barcode: 31858072461555]
Identifier: CC-19807-20194
Scope and Contents

GLOUP (GLOUcestershire grouP) signifies name given by Jonathan Williams to group of concrete poets living in the west of England, mainly in Gloustershire, including Dom Sylvester Houedard, John Furnival and Kenhelm Cox. WOUP (Westminster grOUP) is name given by Bob Cobbing and Peter Mayer to group of concrete poets living in London, mainly in the city of Westminster, including Cobbing, Mayer and Tom Edmonds. This anthology presents five works by each the poets. One copy has a yellow papercard cover, the other an orange one with a tear. Tom Edmonds who died at age 27 years was a member of the group; the Sackner Archive holds three of his typewriter drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

gratuitous sted lids (200864), 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-08621-8793
Scope and Contents

This minimalist poem deals with the gratuitous help (archaic meaning of sted) for viewing authority. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

greek litany (011265), 1965

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-08758-8933
Scope and Contents

The text deals with lesbian/gay love. Houedard mentions that he was ordained at the tomb of Napolean III. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

grove sings 3, 1968

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-57092-10000449
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1968

grove sings 4, 1968

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-57093-10000450
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1968

Guide for 24 12 8 6 Point Circle, 1967

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-57859-10001109
Scope and Contents

Cameron writes that this is "a page in typescript & dsh's hand offering 'a guide for a 24 12 8 6 point circle' to be made on a lettera 22 typewriter with single line adjustment" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[Happy E's], 1966

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55399-888888

homage a leopold sedar senghor (100763), 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56063-9999510
Scope and Contents

Leopold Sedar Senghor was a Sengalese poet, politician and cultural theorist who served as the first president of Senegal for two decades. He was the first African elected as a member of the Academie francais. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

HOUBABALUBALUBA (150663), 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56061-9999509
Scope and Contents

The page contains multiple verses combining French and English. Each poem is dated separately. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Ian Hamilton Finlay (300863), 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-08833-9008

[indented rectangles] (101266), 1966

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-33048-34673
Scope and Contents

This typing in done in blue ink composed of nine constuctivistic images, formed by dashes and underlines, is arranged in a 3 x 3 grid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

[INRI], 1959

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55375-111555

introduction to the extraverse bobcobbing no (271265), 1965

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-59904-10002954
Scope and Contents

dsh analyzes the sound poems of Cobbing and Jandl as well as making comparisons to Zen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

IS, THIS and THAT (100465), 1965

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56897-10000262