A review by maribeaux
The Collected Poems of Georges Bataille by Georges Bataille

4.0

What I saw here was a pattern of what the translator himself refers to as "excremental philosophy" in the introduction; although it has a bad connotation I believe Bataille is just brilliant in many ways even if only a few would agree with or even accept his worldview (even today after so much freedom of action and thought). Indeed Bataille always grasps and presents filth, darkness, eroticism, death, and immorality as ways towards achieving the unachievable something which himself calls in other works "limit experiences". His poetry is full of those and whether taken metaphorically, literally or read simply for the imagery, Bataille's poetry is a pleasureable mind-fuck only for the few.