Velvet Curtains

Velvet Curtains (1974) 76pp

Colette Deblé: cover drawing

Bernard Noël: (essay) Poetry and experience

Georges Bataille: (poems) Pain / Mademoiselle my sweet / Piss / Roman style / Laughing / O skull anus… / my folly and my fear / almanac of the washing of ink / I lose you in the wind / I’ve nothing to do in this world / my heart is cold I tremble / star stabs the sky / blindfold me / the feast will start / you are the horror of the night / you lead me right to the end

Jeff Nuttall: drawings

Georges Bataille: (poem) The undifferentiated Being is nothing

Jack Hirschman: poem on Bataille

Georges Bataille: The Orestia

Bernard Noël: (review): The unfinished/infinite of Bataille

Bernard Noël: (review) A voice and person… (Maurice Blanchot)

Maurice Blanchot: (récit) The Madness of the Day

Maurice Blanchot: (prose) Waiting

Jean Frémon (review) reading Maurice Blanchot

Jean Frémon: (review) To disengage the vertebrae (Bernard Noël)

Bernard Noël: (poem) the game of you I us

Bernard Noël: (prose) Memories of the pale

Claude Bonnefoy: (review) The movement of words (Bernard Noël)

Paul Buck: (essay) or wholeness (Bataille, Blanchot & Noël)

Maurice Blanchot: Translation