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Typewriter poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 284 Collections and/or Records:

2 memorials to lorine (710608) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Niedecker L., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-55099-59019
Scope and Contents

The name, Lorine, in the title refers to Lorine Niedecker.The poems are letters that partially form the alphabet but are missing the letters forming her name.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

3 mantra [black] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-09456-9643
Scope and Contents

This page consists of groups of poems with permutations of the word mantra. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

3 mantra [blue] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-56365-9999789
Scope and Contents

This page consists of three groups of poems with permutations of the word mantra typed in blue. Another version held by the Sackner Archive is typed in black. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

4 logival sets of letter sequences for the rhyming alphabet / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-56008-59768
Scope and Contents

The word logival relates to apophatic. In religious philosophical, terms, the following is an example published on the internet bu Larry Coon: 1. God is the entity than which no greater entity can be conceived. 2. An entity that exists is greater than an entity that does not. Therefore, God exists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

9 Optical Poems / Valoch, Jiri; Houedard DS., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-57232-63393
Scope and Contents

Also designated Writers Forum Folders #3. Includes nine prints on papercard and one print on paper collaged to envelope. Fiver of the nine loose prints are stored in a binder; the others in the original envlope in the Valoch box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[10 Poems] (150563-240563)[CR][10 Poems] (150563-240563) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-08757-8931
Scope and Contents

This work consists of 10 poems with dates of composition along with Houedard's handwritten marginalia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

[17 colons set diagonally] (300663) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-55857-59665
Scope and Contents

The two lines of 17 typed colons follow a crease in the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

[18 Poems] (220563-290563) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-08752-8926
Scope and Contents

This work consists of 18 poems with their dates of compositions as well as handwritten corrections. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

[19 Poems] (030363-030663) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-08753-8927
Scope and Contents

This work consists of 19 poems along with their dates of composision and Houedard's handwritten corrections. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

[23 colons set diagonally] (300663) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-55856-58823
Scope and Contents

The angle of the typed colons follows a crease in the paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

69 (051064) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

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Identifier: CC-09376-9562
Scope and Contents

The page has folds that allow the poem to be displayed in an on end, vertical position. The number '69' is repetively typed in grids of square and rectangular shapes. Three ciircles and twp partial circles typed in black ink capital L's overlay the grids. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

a poem about the in/equality of love / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-56069-9999516
Scope and Contents

Houedard attributes this poem to William Stone. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

a spiral reading of the ballade with square corners for jankrcma word-lengths / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1970

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Identifier: CC-09110-9289
Scope and Contents

The title is followed by the typed numbers 3 to 9 beneath which are 12 lines of increasing length. Houedard's writing on the verso are most likely notes for future works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

ALMOST BUT, OFTEN IT MEANS MORE THAN THAT (January 20, 1968) / League Bull / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-55112-9998925
Scope and Contents

This work was reproduced in the Dom Sylvester houedard book edited by Nicola Simpson, "Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter: The Life and Work of Dom Sylvester Houedard" and is stored in the binder labeled DSH London 2012. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

anacyclic poem with two shouts / DHARMATHOUGHTS STUPAWARDS (310166) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-56022-9999475
Scope and Contents

Anacyclic means palindrome. This poem was written for an artist group in Los Angeles wanting to erect a tower as a protest against the Viet-Nam war. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966