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)