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Typewriter poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 224 Collections and/or Records:

[douxnop], 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-57817-10001069
Scope and Contents

The typed crossed letters read the same when turned upside down. This is the only dsh typed reversal poem in the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

[ecart] (120763) / giocester (200863) / maximus (160963) / whatcowhat (160963), 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-57867-10001119
Scope and Contents

This typing consists of four poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

eschaton (191166) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-08692-8865
Scope and Contents

Eschaton is defined as the final heaven-like stage of history or trying to create heaven here on earth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

FOR AH (230864), 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56368-59674
Scope and Contents

The page is divided into six different spaces with varying typed poetic forms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

for john furnival (120763) [MATCHBOXES], 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56060-9999508
Scope and Contents

One image is a rectangle of the words MATCHBOXES and a second image is a free form composed of red m's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

for yr notebook, 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-57841-10001093
Scope and Contents

Charles Cameron writes, "dsh types red & black for yr notebook some EVE words suggesting words containing 'eve' for my future poems." Some of the words listed are relieve, level, thieve and clever. The paper is perforated for a binder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

four carden peoms for ian & sue [finlay] (151064), 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56420-58838
Scope and Contents

The title was probably not miss-typed by Houedard with carden for garden and peom for poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Frog Pond / Nightingalecicada, 1965

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-09380-9566
Scope and Contents

This depicts working ideas for Frog Pond Plop, later realized in a different format as Opening Number No.6, 1965. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Gedicht [overlapping filled typed squares] (170664), 1964

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

gratuitous sted lids (200864), 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-08621-8793
Scope and Contents

This minimalist poem deals with the gratuitous help (archaic meaning of sted) for viewing authority. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

greek litany (011265), 1965

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-08758-8933
Scope and Contents

The text deals with lesbian/gay love. Houedard mentions that he was ordained at the tomb of Napolean III. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

homage a leopold sedar senghor (100763), 1963

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

HOUBABALUBALUBA (150663), 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56061-9999509
Scope and Contents

The page contains multiple verses combining French and English. Each poem is dated separately. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

I Never Promised You A Cheeseburger, 1981

 Item — Box 129: [Barcode: 31858072457892]
Identifier: CC-57595-51906
Scope and Contents

This work is an unlabeled box with unbound but numbered page scut in the form of an ellipse. Margarita Deidra Pietri is the Literary Administrator of Pietri's estate. His papers are held by Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora, Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, Hunter College, CUNY, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021 (212-772-4197) including material related to 'I Never Promised You a Cheeseburger.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Ian Hamilton Finlay (300863), 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-08833-9008

IS, THIS and THAT (100465), 1965

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56897-10000262