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The collected Poems of Georges Bataille
Translated with an Introduction by Mark Spitzer
"Georges Bataille is known primarily for his novel The Story of the Eye and his historical/philosophical work. This is the first collected English translation of his poetry. It is the poetry of a philosopher, but it is also poetry with an obsessively erotic often scatological edge. As Bataille wrote in his Eroticism Death & Sensuality poetry "leads to the same place as all forms of eroticism -- to the blending and fusion of separate objects. It leads us to eternity, it leads us to death, and through death to continuity. Poetry is eternity; the sun matched with the sea."
