HOUÉDARD, Dom Sylvester

Born in the Channel Islands, Dom Sylvester became in 1949 a Benedictine monk, thereafter residing in Prinknash Abbey in Gloucester, England. A leading English-language theorist of Concrete Poetry in the 1960s, he published and exhibited elaborate, typewriter-composed visual poems that his colleague Edwin Morgan called typestracts, speaking of them as ikons for contemplation, topological tantric forms linked to language or poetry only by the lingering literary hookup anything typewritten...