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Typewriter poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 224 Collections and/or Records:

Silence: SILENCE, page 20, 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-57025-10000387
Scope and Contents

Burgess made this work, her first typewritten, concrete poems while at Pinceton University where she graduated as Bachelor of Arts. Summa Cum Laude University Scholar and Independent Major in 1975. This page is gold leaf with a single typed word 'SILENT.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Sonnets in Concrete: Volume One / Brilliantes, Jos C.., 1968

 Item — Box 359: [Barcode: 31858072461266]
Identifier: CC-23354-23796
Scope and Contents

Brilliantes used typewriter characters to create distinctive shapes from the characters alone, viz. cats, dogs, lions, tigers, giraffes, bedbugs, girls with hula hoops, farmers, toothbrushes, scissors, pans etc. His images are quite unique in typewriter art and poetry and there are no other examples like his in the Sackner Archive. This book is stored in the same portfolio box as Bridgwater's "Typograms." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

TEXTS TO SPEAK W/ THE SHARKEY PEOTRY FILM SHOT ?140964, 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56607-58870
Scope and Contents

John Sharkey's poetry film event was held in Bristol, England. Houedard writes in his introductory statement, "these texts consist of words and silences--any 2 words phrases or silences are connected directly thru what the film is about -- so the words &c can be taken in ANY ORDER." Houedard also writes in the text "CONCRETE POEMS ARE THINGS / LOOK THRU CLEANFORMS TO POETMIND CONCRETE PEOMS...CONCRETE POEMS CAN BE TOYS OR INSTSRUMENTS...CONCRETE IS AFTERBEAT" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

THALAMUS & SOL (071264), 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56381-9999796
Scope and Contents

This depicts a square of composed of two words in capital letters THALAMUS & SOL. Houedard has composed several poems using the neurologic structure, Thalamus, as their basis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

THAT, THIS and IS, 1965

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56896-10000261

The Fire & Wind Rods, 1965

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55899-9999366
Scope and Contents

The first two lines of the poem reads "worshipped in honour of ousioos (inventor of furcoats) / & samen roumes (inventor of the twiggy hut). The text of the poem accompying the typed image is not understandable owing to words foreign to English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

[the longago & yetocome] (170963) / [poeme traduction] / POEME BLANC (140663), 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-57862-10001113
Scope and Contents

This page contains the three concrete poems in the title. The third poem is an" homage a leopold sedar senghor." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963