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Typewriter poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1812 Collections and/or Records:

Faulknerovo jablko / Hirsal, Josef; Grogerova, Bohumila., 1962

 Item
Identifier: CC-08860-9035
Scope and Contents

The theme of this poem is William Faulkner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1962

Feniks-ptakh iz zemel' Rustykh (Phoenix-bird from the land of the Russtes) / Miroshnychenko, Mykola., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-31753-33265
Scope and Contents

This poem is typed in the shape of a bird. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Feu Triomphant / Aubertin, Bernard ; Chopin, Henri., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-25332-25788
Scope and Contents

Work consists of a metal "fire wheel" (holder for candles) by Aubertin, a book containing five typewriter prints by Chopin, and an exhibition catalogue with several texts by Aubertin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Figuur (060964) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-55108-58834
Scope and Contents

The carbon printed residual is present on the verso of this piece. Figuur is the Dutch word for figure. 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. It is also the back cover image for the announcement pamphlet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Fishtank: Guppies / curry, jw., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-19875-20263
Scope and Contents

This is a contemporary version of Morgenstern's poem, Fishes, in which abstract signs (in curry's version, the typed parentheses) are used to depict the images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

[flown music] / Sharkey, John J.., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-57208-10000535
Scope and Contents

The poem makes references to Schoemberg's music. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

FOR AH (230864) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

 Item
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 alan neame (091164) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-08655-8828
Scope and Contents Hoho Eleison typed in poem refers to the Gregorian chant. Internet: Alan John Neame, only son of Alan Bruce (1888-1967) and Annie Victoria Neame, was born on 24 January 1924 in the Kentish village of Selling. His interest in family history started with a childhood discovery that a large part of the village churchyard was filled with Neame memorials. This early interest, nurtured by elderly relatives with vivid memories of his ancestors living in the mid 19th century, became a fascination that would endure throughout the seventy-six years of his life. Alan Neame graduated from Wadham College, Oxford just after the war, and taught modern languages at Cheltenham College before moving on to lecture at the University of Baghdad. After further lecturing posts in various other Middle Eastern capitals, he gave up teaching for writing and was soon to return to England and to the village of his birth that he so loved. Alan was a religious scholar, working for three years as Literary Editor...
Dates: 1964

for bill butler [1] - let him make the next move / for dave wildpigeon (171068) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56297-58963
Scope and Contents

This page contains two poems, one for Bill Butler and one for Dave Wildpigeon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

for bill butler[2] - let him make the next move (151068) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56319-9999743
Scope and Contents

This page contains a poem for Bill Butler and two drawings in the lower right corner. Written in red ink in the lower right corner by Houedard is 'iso lithic shadow games." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

for eugen: frau an [illegible] (130764) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Gomringer E., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-55828-58839
Scope and Contents

The dedication of the woman's name to eugen [gomringer], one of the founders of concrete poetry, in this poem is illegible. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

for george dowden 2 (120664) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-56284-9999722
Scope and Contents

This poem is one of three that form a sequence. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

for george [dowden] 3 / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-56084-9999531
Scope and Contents

George in the title of this poem refers to the British poet, George Dowden. The handwritten leaflet reads, 'these 3 form a sequence & go together as a set.' The other two components are catalogued individually in the Sackner Archive, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

for george dowden (120664) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Dowden G., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-09378-9564
Scope and Contents

George Dowden in the title of this poem refers to the British poet. Moire effects in this poem were produced by overtyping tight grids of letters. 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. This poem is one of three that form a sequence. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

for ihf [ian hamilton finlay] (250663) [me you] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-55549-9999180
Scope and Contents

This poem is laid out in the style of ee cummings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963