The Collected Poems of Georges Bataille
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IntroductionAcknowledgementsGrief1Mademoiselle My Heart2Pee3With Romaine4Laughing5I Place My Cock6Oh Cranium7Eleven Poems Taken from the Archangelical8Eliminated Poems19The Wolf Sighs36Erotic Poems37Coryphea53My Song54The Marseillaise of Love56The Brown Waltz57It's the Newest Dance58[The Sidewalk of Danaide]59The Archangelical: The Tomb60The Archangelical: The Dawn72The Archangelical: The Void81The Tomb of Louis XXX83The Oratorio87Oresteia89Myself90The Roof of the Temple94I Hurl Myself among the Dead100Gloria in Excelsis Mihi104God106From the Heights of Montserrat109Invocation to Chance111The Discord114Night is My Nudity116The Undifferentiated Being is Nothing120I Gave to Limbour a Rendez-vous128All the Way to the Boots in the Eyes129I was Dreaming of Touching the Sadness of the World130As I Die I Would Like to Hold131Dressed in My Bloody Sweat132The Deepness of a Night133Miscellaneous Notes on the Text135Sources138Translator Biography140
\ Library JournalBataille (1897-1962), French avant-garde critic, editor, and novelist, is best known for provocative "erotic" novels and offbeat philosophical theories. His overlooked poetry, here translated into English for the first time, mingles religious and scatological imagery. Nonbelieving, anti-Puritan, aspiring to freedom of thought without "moral and social constraint," Bataille's world is one in which love and passion are obstacles to openness of mind. Using X-rated erotic motifs, Bataille turns visceral functions into a "headless bird with wings that beat the night"; idealism becomes the "funereal immodesty of dead bones," and stars "anguish beyond compare." Like the better-known Jean-Paul Sartre, Bataille fends off "self-annihilation" by envisioning a beleaguered and austere existence: "the immense universe is death/ I am the fever/ the desire." Confronting "the void," Bataille bravely concludes, "I was grimacing and laughing, lips wide apart, teeth naked." This is the audacious, frightful side of surrealism.--Frank Allen, Northampton Community Coll., Tannersville, PA\ \
