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Typewriter poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1812 Collections and/or Records:

for i/j (120663 & 130663) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-55734-58790
Scope and Contents

This piece consists of two poems in which complete and incomplete solid rectangles are formed from densely packed m's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

for john furnival (120763) [MATCHBOXES] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

 Item
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 john furnival split dot (120763) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-55818-58811
Scope and Contents

The image is formed solely from slashes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

for li (281167) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-56272-59698
Scope and Contents

The poem reads lisson and refers to Nicholas Logsdale's Lisson Gallery in London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

for maria & enrique (041266) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-56030-9999482
Scope and Contents

This work contains the names Maria (?) and Enrique (?) in a constructivistic format. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

For the record /For Fiona Beckett / Hart, David., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-59899-10002952
Scope and Contents

Three pages wee scanned and cleaned up with Photoshop and stored in binder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

for whom the bell tolls / Ward, John Powell., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-57983-10001243
Scope and Contents

The poem is typed on red stock paper and is based upon John Donne's sermon with the noted paragraph that reads, 'No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

for whom the bell tolls / Ward, John Powell., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-57986-10001246
Scope and Contents

The poem is typed on white stock paper (another copy is on red stock paper) and is based upon John Donne's sermon with the noted paragraph that reads, 'No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

for yr notebook / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

 Item
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) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

 Item
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

Fragile, 1976

 Item — Folder 31: [Barcode: 31858072459906]
Identifier: CC-19785-20172
Scope and Contents

Chopin makes an analogy between the images of two space ships (Apollo and Soyuz) joining in space, as depicted on postage stamps, to homosexuality. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Freewheel / John Furnival, curator ; Dom Sylvester Houedard, curator ; Cox K ; Farrell S ; Finlay IH ; Lord S ; Mayer HJ ; Phillips T ; Stevenson A ; Verity S ; Willcocks J., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-10949-11161
Scope and Contents

The exhibition was curated by John Furnival and Dom Sylvester Houedard. The latter wrote an introductory essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Frog No.4 / Parritt, Simon., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-57717-10000972
Scope and Contents

This is a typewriter, concrete poetic image of Basho's 'Frog, Pond, Plop.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Frog Pond / Nightingalecicada / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1965

 Item
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

Frohlichs wirbeltiergehirn: Beitrage zur physiologischen literatur / Eisendle, Helmut., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-46922-49658
Scope and Contents

The images created with typed text are of the brain and its component parts. The text is related to anatomy and physiology of the brain. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

From I to Iran: Further Subverse Wanderings / Endwar., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-13402-13703
Scope and Contents

Endwar titles a poem from a word(s) and fragments it(them) into clusters of letters and spaces, while retaining the same order of the letters, to form a new poem which can be read from top to bottom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

g + / Mairey, Francoise., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-59515-10002591
Scope and Contents

Card No.8 was scanned into record. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002