SHIFTER 23
Withdrawn: a Discourse
Edited by Thom Donovan & Sreshta Rit Premnath
273 pp.
A
book of metadiscourse, Withdrawn: a Discourse consists of 50 letters
composed by Thom Donovan to the proper names of living personages which appear
in his currently unpublished second book of poems, Withdrawn. In
response to his letters and copies of Withdrawn in manuscript,
thirty-two addressees offer images, letters, drawings, poems, essays, dream
journal entries, art works, documents, and manifestos. Withdrawn: a
Discourse also includes Donovan’s correspondence for the project; an essay
regarding the “authorless” book; as well as a review of Withdrawn by
poet and translator, Ian Dreiblatt. Other contributors include: Adam Pendleton,
Not an Alternative, Ben Kinmont, Bhanu Kapil, Brandon Brown, Brian Holmes,
Brian Whitener, Bruce Andrews, CA Conrad, Charles Bernstein, Chase Granoff,
Claire Pentecost, cris cheek, David Buuck, Dodie Bellamy, Jordan Scott, Eléna
Rivera, Etel Adnan, Fred Moten, Fred Tomaselli, Gregory Sholette, Jennifer
Scappettone, Kathy Westwater, Mary Austin Speaker, Melissa Buzzeo, Rigo 23, Rob
Halpern, Robert Kocik, Sanford Biggers, Sreshta Rit Premnath, Stephen Collis,
and Tyrone Williams.
