Buzz Spector's Marcel Broodthaers #2 (2010) at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts here. Spector "gives a Walker Art Center/Rizzoli catalog of Broodthaers's work the full treatment, covering every page in gesso and methodically ripping the pages.... Spector's engagement with Broodthaers goes at least as far back as his 1983 History of Europe, a work not included in this retrospective. Here Spector inverted Broodthaers's very first artistic effort: he sank copies of his last book of poetry into plaster, symbolically sinking his career," in a discussion of a Spector/Broodthaers retrospective here.

And Marcel Broodthaers (1997) here. More of Spector's work here; some discussion here. Also see Spector's A Passage (Granary Books 1994) here: "Clearly, A Passage is every book...". Spector's website is here.

Bradley Harrison's "Gray," the last in a series of erasures of his own poem "Her Problem of Gravity" (2012). Read them all over at The Offending Adam, here.

Australian artist Kylie Stillman's "Buff-Tailed Thornbill" (2006), & more on her website, here. The Recycled Library exhibition catalog explains,"Like negative sculptures, the birds are rendered in negative space. These are not images of birds, or even stuffed birds, but rather the space left after the bird has gone," here.

Emily Dickinson's Poems (Little, Brown 1901). More here.


1) Janet Holmes THE MS OF M Y KIN (Shearsman, 2009), an erasure of Dickinson's Civil War poems, here. More pages here, Holmes discusses her project here, Ron Silliman discusses it here, and p. 98 is below:





2) Kiki Smith's Emily Dickinson Sampler (Arion Press, 2007) -- 200 of Dickinson's poems with prints by Smith. More here and here.


3) from Jen Bervin's The Dickinson Fascicles (2004-2006?). More here. Published as The Dickinson Composites (Granary Books 2010), here.


4) Roni Horn's When Dickinson Shut her Eyes--For Felix; No. 352 (1993), here. More here, here, and here.

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5) See also Laura Wetherington's chapbook Dick Erasures (2011), from Red Ceilings Press, here.

1) Brooke Schmidt's "Vagabond Songs" from A Little Book of Vagabond Songs: Poems of the Hills and Sea, ed. Frank Shay (Harper & Bros, 1931), here; an interview with Schmidt here.

2) Li Kim Goh's Seed (2011). More images and info at her website, here.

1) From Sean Bishop's RES--ECTIONS (from Darwin's 1859 The Origin of Species). Bishop explains, "I chose The Origin of Species mostly by accident....It was only after I'd begun erasing that I realized what I was doing: The process of natural selection is itself a form of erasure, after all," at iO: A Journal of New American Poetry, here, as part of a long interview about his chapbook-length erasure project. With more pictures, of course.
2). Ian Monroe's The _____ of _____ By Means of Natural _____ or the _____ of Favoured _____ In The Struggle For Life (2011, a free downloadable e-book, here). Monroe explains, "For the first time, Darwin's dangerous ideas have been published, with every word which doesn't occur in the King James version of the Holy Bible safely redacted."

I begin each page by boxing out interesting pieces of diction or syntax in pencil, then constructing an idea or story from those pieces and whiting out the rest.

I chose The Origin of Species mostly by accident, just because I had an old and beautiful edition of the book gathering dust on my shelf. It was only after I’d begun erasing that I realized what I was doing: The process of natural selection is itself a form of erasure, after all.

I chose The Origin of Species mostly by accident, just because I had an old and beautiful edition of the book gathering dust on my shelf. It was only after I’d begun erasing that I realized what I was doing: The process of natural selection is itself a form of erasure, after all.

I chose The Origin of Species mostly by accident, just because I had an old and beautiful edition of the book gathering dust on my shelf. It was only after I’d begun erasing that I realized what I was doing: The process of natural selection is itself a form of erasure, after all.

from Katrina Rodabaugh's Dresses/Objects project (2007-2010), an art installation based on Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons. As part of the project, she explains, "I printed poems from Gertrude Stein’s book, Tender Buttons, on to recycled fabric with a letterpress," here. An image of the whole dress here. Some fascinating discussion--with more pictures--here.

Jody Alexander's Exposed Spines (2010), here. Alexander's version of The Handmaid's Tale here, more work here, and her website here.

From Jerome Fortin's Solitudes (2011?), "a project where hundreds of books are collected, transformed and arranged into tableaus." More on his website, here.

Rosmarie Waldrop's Shorter American Memory (Paradigm Press, 1988/2001?), here and here, a collection of prose poems collaged from documents collected in Henry Beston's American Memory (1937). A sample poem,"Shorter American Memory of the Declaration of Independence," here, and some discussion here, here, and here.

Henry Beston's American Memory (Farrar & Rinehart, 1937)

Curtis Steiner's Among the Poets (2010), at the Sandy Gallery, here.

& similar folded book work by Katya Marritz, here (and here).

Gregory Betts' The Others Raisd in Me: 150 Readings of Sonnet 150 (Pedlar Press, 2009), 150 versions and permutations of Shakespeare's Sonnet #150. "The work examines ideas of selfhood from the 17th century into the present, flirting with a cyborgian future," here. Susan Holbrook describes the project as "push and pull, the simultaneity of inflation and infolding, spill and vacuum, all performing between the covers of a book which is itself both smaller and bigger than your standard poetry collection" here. More here. Betts' "plunderverse" project, here. More discussion & examples here, here, here, and here; more about Betts here.
See also this version by Trainwreck Press, here, and--of course--other Shakespearean experiments here.