Religion, eroticism and being's continuity : a reading of Kevin Hart in the light of Bataille's theory

Zhang explores how poet Kevin Hart's writing is resonant with Bataille's theory on religion and eroticism, and demonstrates, in the meantime, the ways of obtaining intimacy with the deity, or continuity of being, by reading two of his major poems, "The Hall" (Hart, Flame Tree 192-4) and "Madonna" (195-200), with some references to Bataille's works, including The Impossible, Story of the Eye, and L'ABBE C. Understanding religion and eroticism in this way, they find that Bataille's theory is admirably re-embodied in some of Hart's poems, especially in "The Hall" and "Madonna," in which the poet, as Bataille does, submits, in an academic or philosophical way, the divine "totality" and "transcendent beyond" into interrogation.