Description
Poetry. Fiction. Philosophy. Katy Bohinc's DEAR ALAIN is a headlong, investigative imagined conversation between Poet and Philosopher, a long love poem of letters addressed to French Platonist philosopher, Alain Badiou. At once "a romance novel of a sort," a metaphor of the relationship between poetry & philosophy, and a representation of the work of Alain Badiou. Includes a short response by Badiou himself. A place where, "We meet at infinity."
"She's terrific, and I don't even think very often about Alain Badiou—I'm just enjoying her exclamations, and her explanations of how poetry, for her, embodies intuition and provides evidence for embodied experience. It's a very good book and I'm going to quote it at people."—Stephen Burt
"Surely, certainly, amusingly, thoroughly, this book is the perfectly unfaithful book in its loving address to that collapsed beast, philosophy. Between its slick covers, Katy gambols. She defies the parameters of the epistolary mini-drama her letters to Alain Badiou act out: a park, a platonic table, a parallelogram that meets at the horizon. 'How do you not wonder if the canon has made a mistake' she asks. The sheer vitality of her quest shows us that philosophy depends on being dead a little bit."—Lisa Robertson
"This book should be banished!"—Slavoj Žižek
Author Bio
Katy Bohinc grew up in the outskirts of Cleveland and graduated from Georgetown with degrees in Pure Mathematics and Comparative Literature, leaving her studies for a time to work in Beijing with the Chinese Urgent Action Working Group, a human rights organization. Now living in New York City, she works as a data scientist and marketer; she is currently Head of Data and Innovation with Inspira Marketing. Since 2013 she has collaborated with Lee Ann Brown in directing Tender Buttons Press, a distinguished publisher of experimental women's poetry for which she edited TENDER OMNIBUS: THE FIRST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF TENDER BUTTONS PRESS (2015) and PLEASE ADD TO THIS LIST: A GUIDE TO TEACHING BERNADETTE MAYER'S SONNETS AND EXPERIMENTS (2014). Bohinc is the author of DEAR ALAIN (Tender Buttons, 2014), letters to the French philosopher Alain Badiou about poetry, philosophy, and love; a book of poems about the divine feminine, Trinity Star Trinity (Scarlet Imprint, 2017); and SCORPIO (Miami University Press, 2018).
Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA