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D S H (Dom Sylvester Houédard), 1924-1992

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Found in 174 Collections and/or Records:

[Scanned material, mostly by Dom Sylvester Houedard], undated

 Item — Box 396: [Barcode: 31858072461605]
Dates: undated
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / NOT COBBING

[Self-crucifixion], 1954

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Dates: 1954
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / H / Houédard, Dom Sylvester

silent & agile, 1965

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Dates: 1965
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / H / Houédard, Dom Sylvester

silkworm (seolcwrym)

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Dates: -
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / H / Houédard, Dom Sylvester

Sprechgedichte, Sound Poems, Introduction and Ancestry 2nd Ed. / Jandl, Ernst ; Cobbing, Bob ; Houedard, Dom Sylvester ; Carroll L ; Morgenstern C ; Khlebnikov V ; Ball H ; Albert-Birot P ; Hausmann R ; Marinetti FT ; Schwitters K ; Seuphor M ; Lemaitre M ; Wittgenstein L ; Hodell A., 1966

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-08236-8398
Scope and Contents

This is a reprinting of the book which was first published in 1965; it is No.15 in the Poets* series. In the introduction, Houedard traces the history of sound poetry through a listing of the chronology of "notable soundpoems" beginning with Lewis Carroll in 1855 and ending with Cobbing in 1965. He also mentions Egyptian hymns 300 B.C. of breath poems consisting of may notes sung to one syllable. Houedard's manuscript for this essay is held by the Sackner Archive. This book was written to accompany Writers Forum Record No.1 by Jandl and Cobbing. One of the poems by Jandl in this book, "time passes," also appears in the manuscript and book of "mai hart...," works also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1960s / 1966

Still Adding To My Alphabet Sound Poems This Morning, 1967

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56697-58932
Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / H / Houédard, Dom Sylvester

Sylvester Houedard, 1968

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-08855-9030
Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / H / Houédard, Dom Sylvester

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / H / Houédard, Dom Sylvester

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / H / Houédard, Dom Sylvester

THAT, THIS and IS, 1965

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56896-10000261
Dates: 1965
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / H / Houédard, Dom Sylvester

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / H / Houédard, Dom Sylvester

The Flip Side of Language, 1966

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-59905-10002955
Scope and Contents

This essay is another copy of the manuscript with slightly different handwritten correctionss and appeared in ISIS No.1507, 1966, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / H / Houédard, Dom Sylvester

The Immaculate Conception, 1954

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-09836-10030
Scope and Contents

This depicts two nuns holding hands while lying in bed; It is collaged onto a page of Furnival's "Liber Amicorum 1964-1984," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1954
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / H / Houédard, Dom Sylvester

[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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / H / Houédard, Dom Sylvester

the third bridge, 1965

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

Pages 23 and 24

Dates: 1965
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / H / Houédard, Dom Sylvester

The Thought of the Sensation (711230) , 1971

 Item — Folder 54: [Barcode: 31858072537883]
Identifier: CC-38223-40119
Dates: 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

[Three Ladies' Heads], 1959

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55373-111333
Dates: 1959
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / H / Houédard, Dom Sylvester

& thunder storms (220163-011063), 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55745-59670
Scope and Contents

The earlist poem on this page of multiple small poems dated 220163 reads 'the creator's - primordial crime - scrubbed.' Another poem that Houedard produced on 160263 reads 'Bang sid gpd - bangbang said i - we are both a bit kinky.' In a concrete poetic version of this poem with the same date also held by the Sackner Archive entitled 'dialogue,' the ending has been changed to 'we are both a bit crazy.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / H / Houédard, Dom Sylvester

turnings xmas69 / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

 Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]
Identifier: CC-53338-59714
Scope and Contents

Houedard wrote this poem with his typical printed letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / Dom Sylvester Houedard

[Various E's], 1966

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55397-555555
Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / H / Houédard, Dom Sylvester