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Badiou: The Age of the Poets: Poetry and Communism

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Badiou proposes the essential link between poetry and communism in the twentieth century, through the common good of language, and gives reason to both the writing and reading of poetry in a time of revolution.

Celebrating National Poetry Day in the UK, a passage from his new book, The Age of the Poets.