Steles is a major work of the French writer Victor Segalen; this is the first complete translation into English. As Michael Taylor notes in his foreword, the poems were inspired by the "solemn presence... and grave resistance to the flux of shifting memories" of the ancient funerary steles found in China. The inspiration was thorough and going for it transformed Segalen, a 32-year-old medical officer, who had written little verse, into a recognized "poet of the far East." His writings became the source for music, art, and critical analysis. Paul Auster calls Steles "one of the strangest and most beautiful books of poetry written in this century... Michael Taylor has done a flawless job in capturing the slow music and power of the original texts." Painter Walasse Ting provided calligraphic poem and section titles for the edition. The cover of the paper edition reproduces a Sam Francis "stele painting."A limited number of copies were bound in boards covered with an original Sam Francis lithograph. Printed letterpress on fine paper, in several colors, in a narrow, tablet-like format. Translated by Michael Taylor.

STELES - WITH AN ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHIC COVER BY SAM FRANCIS

(FRANCIS, SAM). Segalen, Victor. Translated By Michael Taylor

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A searing personal record of spiritual and communal crisis, wherein the death of god announces the beginning of friendship.Guilty is a searing personal record of spiritual and communal crisis, wherein the death of god announces the beginning of friendship. It takes the form of a diary, recording the earliest days of World War II and the Nazi occupation of France, but this is no ordinary day book: it records the author’s journey through a war-torn world without transcendence. Bataille’s spiritual journey is also an intellectual one, a trip with Hegel, Kierkegaard, Blake, Baudelaire, and Nietzsche as his companions. And it is a school of the flesh wherein eroticism and mysticism are fused in a passionate search for pure immanence. Georges Bataille said of his work: “I teach the art of turning horror into delight.” This new translation of Guilty is the first to include the full text from Bataille’s Oeuvres Complètes. The text includes Bataille’s notes and drafts, which permit the reader to trace the development of the book from diary to draft to published text, as well as annotations of Bataille’s source materials. An extensive and incisive introductory essay by Stuart Kendall situates the work historically, biographically, and philosophically. Guilty is Bataille’s most demanding, intricate, and multilayered work, but it is also his most personal and moving one.“This important new edition and translation of French philosopher and poet Georges Bataille’s wartime diary, first published in 1944, stands as a crucial record of the intimate thoughts and imagery that would become the ground for his later, and better known, works on eroticism and mysticism … Highly recommended.” — CHOICE

GEORGES BATAILLE: GUILTY

(BATAILLE, GEORGES). Bataille, Georges. Denis Hollier, Editor. Bruce Boone, Translator

In 1983, Swiss psychiatrist C.A. Meier delivered a fascinating paper at the 3rd World Wilderness Congress in Inverness, Scotland. Wilderness and the Search for the Soul of Modern Man addressed not only the tragedy of our vanishing natural wilderness and the need to preserve it, but also the necessity of preserving man's 'inner wilderness.' A Testament to the Wilderness consists of Meier's original address and thoughtful and provocative responses by nine concerned writers from around the world. (Laurens van der Post, Henderson, Wheelwright ...)

Testament to the Wilderness

C. A. Meier

Religion & Spirituality

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STELES - WITH AN ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHIC COVER BY SAM FRANCIS

GEORGES BATAILLE: GUILTY

Testament to the Wilderness