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

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Ernst Jandl was a Viennese sound/concrete poet who published with Houedard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These poems were printed by students of Watford School of Art. The original colored typing of one of the poems, "Sex Exacts," is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Liberte is a dog breed and ilpeset is ?. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the first page Houedard wrote, "thank you for the invitation to your show - wish i cld have manged it all best sounds good" At the bottom of page three Houedard wrote, "typed in haste - unchecked - i fear with a slip or two - sent the with unslipt luvs" -s. Pages 2 & 3 of this letter are based upon an onomastikon that is a book, list, or vocabulary of names, especially of people. Wikipedia: Peter Schmidt (17 May 1931 "“ 22 January 1980) was a Berlin-born British artist, painter, theoretician of color and composition, pioneering multimedia exhibitor and an influential teacher at Watford College of Art. He was part of a generation of art school teachers in the 1960s and 1970s that had great impact on some students who later went on to work in art and music. He worked with Hansjörg Mayer, Brian Eno, Mark Boyle, Dieter Roth and had associations with Russell Mills, David Toop and Tom Phillips. the Sackner Archive holds one work by Schmidt, The Thoughts Behind the Thoughts", an...

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First published by Renegade Press as Polluted Lake Series No.8, 1965. The poem fragments the word "waltz" on succeeding pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Charles Cameron writes about this collection of 36 pages and one cover page, "A collection of non--concrete poems on mainly religious topics, some on the beat & raunchy side, typed by me (cc) on dsh's typewriter and inscribed by him on title page "& copied in my presence dsh" - erotic, quixotic, off beat, beat, wild stuff." The poems iknclude adescription os dsh's typewriter, Jack Kerouac, and a poetry definition as 'misplaced sex.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work was printed by Simon Verity. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.