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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 278 Collections and/or Records:

Funeral Games 1: In Honor of d a levy THE YOUNG CLEVELAND POETFROM OHIO founder of the POLLUTED LAKE SERIES & the SILVER CESSPIT PUBLICATIONS (061268) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; levy da., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-55895-658982
Scope and Contents

This piece provides instructions for building a machine as a memorial to da levy. Such a machine could be programmed as an animation but economical, high powered, computers were still on the horizon at that time. The Sackner Archive holds a large Archive of da levy's work who committed suicide in 1968. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Funeral Games 2: In Honor of d a levy THE YOUNG CLEVELAND POETFROM OHIO founder of the POLLUTED LAKE SERIES & the SILVER CESSPIT PUBLICATIONS (061268) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; levy da., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-55896-6158982
Scope and Contents

This piece provides instructions for building a machine as a memorial to da levy. Such a machine could be programmed as an animation but economical, high powered, computers were still on the horizon at that time. The Sackner Archive holds a large Archive of da levy's work who committed suicide in 1968. This is the same typing as Funeral Games 1 but without the instructions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

[Funeral Games 3]: d a levy poem memorial erected at his funeral games (061268) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; levy da., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-55897-58982
Scope and Contents

This is a static piece of poetry base upon Funeral Games 1 and 2 and is stored with them in the typing binder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Gedicht [overlapping filled typed squares] (170664) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

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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

glostershire sun-rolling disc-ode; memorial to ken cox (121168) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Cox K., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56290-59746
Scope and Contents

gloster ode works ltd is at the bottom center. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

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

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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

Gum Cock: Poems by the dsh & the gloster ode construction company / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-38071-39960
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1970

h as h is h dsh / hashish dsh / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-55755-9999306
Scope and Contents

Houedard writes "for steve - tarig - chas" on the left side of the card. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

H as H is H [light yellow background] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1970

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Identifier: CC-55870-9999356
Scope and Contents

The drawing reads "hashish" and is drawn on paper.The folded page contains the word hashish and beneath it the typed (H-as-H-is H) where both the capital H's and the parenthesis are in red.The calligraphic writing states "not a reflecting poem." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

H as H is H [violet background] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1970

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Identifier: CC-55868-9999354
Scope and Contents

The poem reads "hashish." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

H as H is H [yellow background] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1970

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Identifier: CC-55869-9999355
Scope and Contents

The poem reads "hashish." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Happpppy Xyzmas 66 (051165) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

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Identifier: CC-55688-9999279
Scope and Contents

This is the same piece as the two scrolls with the same title held by the Sackner Archive but flattened. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

he las / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-57125-10000465
Scope and Contents

From page top a cut out letter " l" is collaged onto page center with a green strip. At the bottom left Houedard has written "ode to the colonels" in reference to the Greek military dictatorship. On the right border he has written "glastsz ode consturctions ltd." Wikipedia: The Greek military junta of 1967"“74 (alternatively The Regime of the Colonels. The Dictatorship and The Seven Years was a series of right-wing military juntas that ruled Greece following the 1967 Greek coup d'état led by a group of colonels on 21 April 1967. The dictatorship ended in July 1974. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

hello JACK / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1970

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Identifier: CC-57490-10000783
Scope and Contents

The letter to Jack [?] reads "here in a boite box with some bonbons sweets and a friend un ami and his chien dog for you and your jambe Leg to get well soon from silvester." The large letters on the right side of the page are typed by using the following lower case letters or punctuation marks: o _ . " $ . The right side of the page is crumpled and torn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

homage 1 a leopold sedar senghor/ machine rollcall for peter levi sj (050964) / POEME BLANC (140663) / GOMRINGER (190864) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Levi P; Gomringer E; Senghor LS., 1963 - 1964

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Identifier: CC-57866-10001118
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 - 1964

homage a leopold sedar senghor 3 (201163) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-56065-9999512
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

homage a leopold sedar senghor (100763) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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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