From "Community Chest,"* a work-in-progress. Ultimately (I think): 12 sets of 12 different cards, to be variously combined or singled out to create poems.

Materials: self-inking stamp, ionized paper. 

*with thanks to Mary Fitzpatrick for the title.  

 

from Ania Wawrzkowicz's series Ambiguous Documents (2012?). More images (but very little information) here, here, here, and here.

 

Alastair Noble's Blake Illuminated (2002), here. Noble explains how "slots in metal pages replace the words" of William Blake's poem, "Earth's Answer" from Songs of Experience (1794). See more of Noble's wonderful sculptures here (definitely check out Zang Tumb Tumb!), read some discussion of his sculptural work here.

Blake's own illumination of "Earth's Answer"

John Eric Broaddus's High Time (1986). "I had no qualms about eliminating the entire text," Broaddus explains here. View more of his work here, here, and here; watch Johanna Drucker discussing his work here, a list of exhibitions here.

Donna Ruff's "May 16, 2011," -- "'I like to cut away or remove parts of pages so that there is a kind of conversation between what is printed on the page and what is removed--the positive and negative space are equally important,"' she explains at The Huffington Post,here. More images here; Ruff's blog, here, and her website with more altered paper projects here. "I’m attracted to paper’s fragility and pristine beauty- yet my work involves scarring, incising, burning and puncturing its surface," here.

Ros Rixon's "Violence in the Art," which looks to be from John Fraser's Violence in the Arts (Cambridge UP, 1974). "I am often asked if I think of the idea before I find a book or the other way around? I tend to work both ways," Rixon explains. More altered books and sculptures on her site, here. 

 

A mixed-media miniature from Karen Green's "Tiny Stampede," here. Green explains, "I've been making this "found poetry" for years. I thought I invented it, but found out later I most definitely did not. Some of these are taken from a poetry anthology--I cut out just the first lines and spent an afternoon or two rearranging them. Then I got into a trance and cut those up and rearranged those. Trances are hard to come by these days; I am happy for those hours. And yes, "to give sorrow words", sneakily, using the words of others who tried to do the same," in an interview here (and also here).

Green's forthcoming book including similar visual/poetic work Bough Down (Siglio Press 2013), is an "unusual narrative constructed of crystalline fragments of prose interspersed with miniature collages." Some discussion of Bough Down here. See/read some images and excerpts here, here and here. More with Green here and here, a previous publication, Here/Gone (2008), here.