| 词条 | Sylvester Houédard |
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| bgcolour = #fff | name = Dom Sylvester Houédard | image = | imagesize = 191 | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1924|2|16|df=y}} | birth_place = Guernsey | death_date = {{death date and age|1992|1|15|1924|2|16|df=y}} | death_place = | nationality = British | field = poetry, concrete poetry, literary criticism, theology, translation, spirituality | works = }} Dom (Pierre-)Sylvester Houédard (16 February 1924 – 15 January 1992), also known by the initials dsh, was a Benedictine priest, theologian and noted concrete poet. LifeBorn on Guernsey, Houédard was educated at Jesus College, Oxford.[1] He served in British Army Intelligence from 1944 to 1947, and in 1949 joined the Benedictine Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire, being ordained as a priest in 1959.[1][3] Concrete poetHouédard was a leading exponent of concrete poetry, with regular contributions to magazines and exhibitions from the early 1960s onward.[1] His elaborate, typewriter-composed visual poems ("typestracts") were scattered across many chapbooks, including Kinkon (1965) and Tantric Poems Perhaps (1967).[5] Among his best-known works is the poem "Frog-Pond-Plop", his English rendition of a zen haiku by Matsuo Bashō.[2][5]. he also edited 4 issues of the magazine Kroklok (1971-1976), a periodical devoted to research into the history of sound poetry. Bible translatorHouédard became literary editor of the Jerusalem Bible in 1961.[1] Other interestsHouédard cultivated an interest in multiple religious traditions; he wrote commentaries on Meister Eckhart and was a founder-member of the Eckhart Society, as well as an honorary fellow of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society.[3] He published a fair amount of literary criticism, often with eccentric typography,[4] and corresponded widely with leading poets, artists, theologians and philosophers of the day, including Robert Graves, Edwin Morgan, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Mark Boyle, John Blofeld, Michael Horovitz and Ian Hamilton Finlay.[2] dom sylvester houedard (dsh) collaborated with Filpino poet and artist David Medalla in a modern ballet entitled The Yellow Wrinkled Pea, inspired by the life and scientific discoveries of the monk Gregor Johann Mendel; the modern ballet, choreographed by Medalla, was performed in 1967 by members of the Exploding Galaxy at Middle Earth in Covent Garden, London, in 1967. dsh contributed a poem to Signals, the avant-garde newsbulletin by Medalla in the sixties. dsh, Medalla and Antonio Sena exhibited together at the Lisson Gallery in London in 1967. Medalla curated the first solo exhibition by dsh in 1976 at Artists for Democracy's Fitzrovia Cultural Centre, 143 Whitfield Street, London. References1. ^1 2 3 British Council website 2. ^1 2 [https://web.archive.org/web/20120908044910/http://archiveshub.ac.uk/features/0310hou.html Archives Hub: dom silvester houédard Papers] 3. ^Beshara Publications author info 4. ^1 2 Richard Kostelanetz, H. R. Brittain: A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes, p. 291 Further reading
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