Badiou and American Modernist Poetics

Cameron MacKenzie is Adjunct Professor of English at Ferrum College, USA. His work has appeared in SubStance, symplok_, and The Cormac McCarthy Journal, and his essays have been collected in The Waste Land at 90: A Retrospective (2011) and Edward P. Jones: New Essays (2011).

1. The Void and the Mark

2. A Poetic Dialectic: The Place is Void

2.1 Master, Place, and Truth

2.2 A Throw of the Dice

2.3 The Ode of Labíd

2.4 The Subject of the Void

3. Contaminated Intentions: Tradition and the Individual Talent

3.1 Building the Ideal Order

3.2 A Ruined Bicycle

3.3 The Poet and the Critic

4. Badiou, Stevens, Drawing

4.1 Dis-placed From the Place

4.2 "...On Wallace Stevens"

4.3 "Drawing..."

5. The Natural Void

5.1 The Larger Nature

5.2 Truth and Distance, Difference, Void

5.3 Dissolving the Void: Grammar

5.4 The Thing Is All That It Does

5.5 From Void to Nature

6. On the Other Side of Mastery