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This work consists of 12 concrete and conventional with handwritten corrections. The poem, POEME BLANc (140663) consists of the title with an empty space below it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This depicts four bunches of grapes (?) formed by overtyping the inverted number "8" in blue. The poem has been removed frpm a page of Furnival's "Liber Amicorum 1964-1984," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Depicts a cluster of what appears to be five apples. It was removed from a page of Furnival's "Liber Amicorum 1964-1984," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Poem is folded to resemble the shape of a butterfly with red and black markings produced by typing. This work was removed from a page of Furnival's "Liber Amicorum 1964-1984," a book held by the kner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is poem appears to resemble the silhouette of a an individual doing a headstand on a chair. Wikipedia: Anselm Paul Alexis Hollo (April 12, 1934 "“ January 29, 2013) was a Finnish poet and translator. He lived in the United States from 1967 until his death in January of 2013. His father, Juho Aukusti Hollo (1885"“1967) "” who liked to be known as "J. A." Hollo "” was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, an essayist, and a major translator of literature into Finnish. His mother was Iris Antonina Anna Walden, a music teacher and daughter of organic chemist Paul Walden. He lived for eight years in the United Kingdom producing three children: Hannes, Kaarina, and Tamsin, with his first wife, poet Josephine Clare. He was a permanent resident in the United States from the late 1960s until his death. At the time of his death, he resided in Boulder, Colorado with his second wife, artist Jane Dalrymple-Hollo. Hollo published more than forty titles of poetry in the UK...

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The typed caption in the upper left side whose letters are formed by small o's reads,"hello cuckoo can i be your friend." Next to the text stands a small densely typed with slashes and @'s, little bird. The bird stands on a typed rectangle beneath which there is a typed 3D tube form and a 3D rectangular box. This piece is the only typewriter poetic work of Houedard's held by the Sackner Archive for the year 1974. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The borders of the rectangles are formed by overtyping lowercase m's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Mentions meeting Alan Broughton, a painterpoet who had been visiting with Charles Verey and John Furnival. Also, Houedard provides information in a Sung manuscript that he believes Abrams might be interested in seeing.The name STEVE is typed in red in the sahpe of a six pointed star. Internet: Stephen Abrams was Head of the Soma Research Association and Joint-Managing irector of Avalon Botanicals from 1967 to 1970. He was the author of the Soma advertisement in The Times and a witness before the Wootton Sub-Committee. Up to the mid 1960s, the majority of cannabis offenders in Britain were imprisoned. The law did not distinguish between cannabis and heroin or between use and supply. The schedule of penalties encouraged imprisonment of first offenders. In July 1967, the Times published a full paged advertisement in support of cannabis law reform. The advertisement described the existing law as "immoral" and "unworkable" but stopped short of proposing legalisation or...

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The shaped poem in the upper right side is typed with capital letters and is repeated in lower case letters in the bottom center. The latter arrangement is more elegant. Houedard writes on the page bottom "nb - if printed care is necessary in centering the letters & spaces." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a typed poem attributed to Ian Hamilton Finlay that depicts a carousel.The three poles read round and round and the horizontal words depict horses and zebras. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.