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Typewriter poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

cher poete [Letter to Charles Cameron} / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Furnival J; Morgan E., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-57842-10001094
Scope and Contents

The letter includes the words cher poete, eve and silvester created with 'c's,' 'p's,' 'e's' and periods, respectively. The pages have binder holes. Eve is Charles Cameron girlfriend. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Dogs Round A Tree / Morgan, Edwin., 1963

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Identifier: CC-50406-71474
Scope and Contents

This poem appeared in Ian Hamilton Finlay's Fishsheet No.1 (1963). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

[Letter to my dear angelBuds] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Weaver M; Furnival J; Wright E; Morgan E., 1967

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Identifier: CC-56692-10000082
Scope and Contents

angelBuds might be John and Wendy Sharkey. Houedard's rants on concrete poetry and homosexual thoughts on page one. He writes that John Furnival is making a motorisation of his POND - FROG - PLOP poem and discusses different typewriter companies on page two. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

my dear john [furnival] (220264) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Finlay IH; Sharkey JJ; Wright E; Morgan E; Hollo A; Stone B; Roth D; Gomringer E; DeCampos A; Chopin H; Garnier P., 1964

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Identifier: CC-43530-45603
Scope and Contents

The body of this letter deals with making an introduction to John Furnival and dropping names of concrete poets prominent on the international scene. The left margin has several concrete poems by Houedard typed in black ink. Houedard typed his name at the bottom of the letter by forming each letter by overtyping the letter 'e'. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

The Computer's First Christmas Card / Morgan, Edwin., 1979

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Identifier: CC-28194-29360
Scope and Contents

This card prints combination words in a vertical listing as a spoof on the powers of a computer, e.g., |jollymerry|hollyberry|jollyberry|... as |MERRYCHR|YSANTHEMUM|. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979