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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 278 Collections and/or Records:

triple helix - o r & a (160467) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-56251-58938
Scope and Contents

The spiral consists of the letters o, r and a. The typing is on on pale green paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

two concrotica [carbon copy](271167) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-56271-9999710
Scope and Contents

The poem is typed one word per line and reads, " 1 / nominative / vocative / accusative / genitalive / dative / ablative 2 / s/he / you / her-him / heirs / toher forhim / bywithfrom them" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

uhuru uhuru (161166) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

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Identifier: CC-09732-9925
Scope and Contents

The page upon which the poem has been typed has waterstains. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Um Nicht Zu Sagen: Ganz Zu Schweigen Von / Ulrichs, Timm ; Houedard DS ; Schwitters K ; Hausmann R ; Garnier P., 1968

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Identifier: CC-52385-73508
Scope and Contents

The pages of this book were printed on different stock and with several inserts among which a printed envelope in which 3 pieces of toilet paper with the printed text: 'landestheater hannover'. - First edition. Published on the occasion of an evening 'text- und aktionsabends ii' organized by Anastasia Bitzos. Participating artists were:Claus Bremer, Rolf Geissbühler, Julien Blaine, Jean-Francois Bory, Reinhard Dohl and Timm Ulrichs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Um Nicht Zu Sagen: Ganz Zu Schweigen Von / Ulrichs, Timm ; Houedard DS ; Schwitters K ; Hausmann R ; Garnier P., 1968

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Identifier: CC-52386-73509
Scope and Contents

The pages of this book were printed on different stock and with several inserts among which a printed envelope in which 3 pieces of toilet paper with the printed text: 'landestheater hannover'. - First edition. Published on the occasion of an evening 'text- und aktionsabends ii' organized by Anastasia Bitzos. participating artists were:Claus Bremer, Rolf Geissbühler, Julien Blaine, Jean-Francois Bory, Reinhard Dohl and Timm Ulrichs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

was an old woman lived in the buddhashoe (290663-060763) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-08879-9055
Scope and Contents This page includes 11 typewriter poems including a oiem in five parts as an homage to Leopold Sedar Senghor. Wikipedia: Léopold Sédar Senghor (9 October 1906 "“ 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who for two decades served as the first president of Senegal (1960"“1980). Senghor was the first African elected as a member of the Académie française. Before independence, he founded the political party called the Senegalese Democratic Bloc. He is regarded by many as one of the most important African intellectuals of the 20th century. He graduated from the University of Paris, where he received the Agrégation in French Grammar. Subsequently, he was designated professor at the universities of Tours and Paris, where he taught during the period 1935"“1945. Senghor decided to start his teaching years at the Lycée René-Descartes in Tours; he also taught at the Lycée Marcelin Berthelot in Saint-Maur-des-Fosses near Paris.[14] He also studied linguistics...
Dates: 1963

wedding song (220664) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-56086-9999533
Scope and Contents

The names of the bride and groom poets, frances and michael [horovitz], are typed in an optical design within a red border of @'s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

why many monks know whatimeverythingoeschlupft (290663) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-55850-58820
Scope and Contents

The text zig-zags downward. The Geman word at the end of this poem, 'schlupft' meansslip or stumble in Englsih. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

womb word 1 (051165) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1965

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Identifier: CC-56015-59686
Scope and Contents

This version of the poem is typed on the top portion of the page in four columns. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

womb word 2 (051165) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1965

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Identifier: CC-56016-886644
Scope and Contents

This version of the poem is spaced throughout the page in two columns. It contains the date 051165 handwritten probably by Houedard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

womb word (051165) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-31367-32844
Scope and Contents

The poem was may have been printed much later than its creation. The Sackner Archive holds the original of this poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

[yellow yellow yellow] (070963) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-57865-10001117
Scope and Contents

This typing consists of a zig-zag column of the word yellow and nine words up from the botton the single word green.This is conceptually similar to silencio by Gomringer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

yo catch a whitemanby his manifesto / Houedard, Dom Sylvester, teacher; students of bath academy of art., 1969

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Identifier: CC-55962-9999430
Scope and Contents

The print designs were made by students at the Bath Academy of Art from suggestions made by Houedard as to their themes. The Sackners originally owned two portfolios, one of the numbered edition, the other of an unnumbered edition signed by Houedard on the title page. A water leak in the house near these porfolios completely ruined one of the portfolio covers and damaged the other; two prints that orinally had several artistikc incisions were runed. The print collaged onto one of the portfolios was salvaged for a newly made substitute portfolio. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

ZICKZICK (041164) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-33045-34669
Scope and Contents

Houedard created an optical, constructivistic image by repetitively typing the made-up word 'Zick' in black ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964