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Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966)

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for john furnival (120763) [MATCHBOXES], 1963

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

HOUBABALUBALUBA (150663), 1963

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

homage a leopold sedar senghor (100763), 1963

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

Dashes Variation & Pentade, 1965

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

the third bridge, 1965

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

[Lady with scarf], 1954

 Item — Box: Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966)
Identifier: CC-57491-10000784
Scope and Contents

According to a personal communication from Charles Verey to the Sackners, Houedard was alternating his time in Prinknash Abbey and Rome, Italy from October 1951 to July 1954. He believed that most of the visual art was done in Rome. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1954

[douxnop], 1964

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

for yr notebook, 1964

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

poems of dsh, 1964

 Item — Box: Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966)
Identifier: CC-57846-10001098
Scope and Contents

Charles Cameron writes about this collection of 36 pages and one cover page, "A collection of non--concrete poems on mainly religious topics, some on the beat & raunchy side, typed by me (cc) on dsh's typewriter and inscribed by him on title page "& copied in my presence dsh" - erotic, quixotic, off beat, beat, wild stuff." The poems iknclude adescription os dsh's typewriter, Jack Kerouac, and a poetry definition as 'misplaced sex.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Guide for 24 12 8 6 Point Circle, 1967

 Item — Box: Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966)
Identifier: CC-57859-10001109
Scope and Contents

Cameron writes that this is "a page in typescript & dsh's hand offering 'a guide for a 24 12 8 6 point circle' to be made on a lettera 22 typewriter with single line adjustment" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

DEI GENITRIX (060963), 1963

 Item — Box: Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966)
Identifier: CC-57860-10001110
Scope and Contents

A long column on the right side of the page consists of varied shades of m's with three balnk spaces in the column. The title is typed in the bottom left corner of the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

[monks monks monks] (060963), 1963

 Item — Box: Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966)
Identifier: CC-57861-10001111
Scope and Contents

DSH has typed five columns with seven lines of the words 'monks' with the following different wods randomley placed: flies, poetry, work, prayer, ? , weather. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963