The Shape of Poetry /2 : Dom Sylvester Houédard’s ‘Typestracts’ – SOCKS
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“Mind is being continuously approached by God in the self-gift of His luminous Being, and we try to stop and grasp at short moments of time. But mind is like a river in fluxu et in fieri, it flows as it becomes”. Dom Sylvester Houédard. From “Commentaries on Meister Eckhart Sermons”
The second part of our ongoing research on the use of the typed text as an artistic medium (see our previous post about Carl Andre’s Typed Works) is dedicated to the fascinating figure of Benedectine monk, polymath and concrete poet Dom Sylvester Houédard (1924-92). A champion of concrete poetry in England, dsh (as he signed himself) wrote the first short essay on the subject matter: “Concrete Poetry & Ian Hamilton Finlay”, published in Typographica new series no. 8 of Dec 1963, and also created his own “Typestracts”, (a combination of “typewriter” and “abstract”) using a classic Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter.