In his Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy depicts three forms of sexual desire, and their manifestations. … entirely the soul is the slave of the body, the ethereal spirit dependent for its quality upon the tangible flesh and blood. (Chapter LI) Three men desire one woman, the one woman desiring only the one, […]
Solitary Ethics
In the Last of This Year : The Natural Conditions of Life
In the Last of This Year is from Constellations of Desire, the third part of the Solitary Ethics series. It is the concluding poem, influenced by Montréal poet Robert Melançon, of the the second section, the Ostinato for Casals, which deals with the permanent interrelationship of the natural conditions of life and human art. It […]
Proust and Schubert, Captive
Proust’s The Fugitive has taken me captive. Though I am nearing its end, because of the nature of its style, Proust requires a slow and not always continuous reading. Towards its conclusion it gathers an extraordinary density to and within itself and, furthermore, an extraordinary disposition to the refulgence of mortal change, the observations liberated therein […]
Caravaggio’s Dagger – Review by John Ferguson, Chief Administrative Officer, Municipal County of Annapolis, NS
John Ferguson is the chief administrative officer of the Municipal County of Annapolis, along the Fundy shore of Nova Scotia. Until recently he had been my successor as the chief administrative officer of the Town of St. Stephen, New Brunswick, where he had chosen to take on professional municipal life as an appointed official, and […]
Caravaggio’s Dagger – Review by Kadrush Radogoshi, Distinguished Kosovar Poet, Novelist, and Essayist
I met Kadrush Radogoshi through my own literary activities in Edmonton, and we have spent time together in his acquainting me of his biography, oeuvre, stylistic dispositions and preferences, the awards for and reviews of his work, and the history of his selection of Edmonton as the Canadian city to reside in. Mr. Radogoshi’s work […]
Caravaggio’s Dagger – Review by Henk Guittart, Founder, Artistic Director, and Violist of the Schoenberg Quartet and the Schoenberg Ensemble
Henk Guittart is well known as the founder, artistic director, and violist of the Schoenberg Quartet and the Schoenberg Ensemble, which performed and recorded internationally from 1976 to 2009. He has also been associated with the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Deutsche Bachsolisten, Consortium Classicum, the Stuttgart Piano Trio, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the Royal Conservatory […]
Caravaggio’s Dagger – Review by Dr. James Delgado, Director of Maritime Heritage, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Washington, DC
Jim Delgado and I met in 1996, when I was appointed Executive Director of the Vancouver Museum, and he the distinguished Executive Director of the neighbouring Vancouver Maritime Museum, a position he held for 15 years. In 2006, he moved to Texas as Executive Director, and later President and CEO, of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology; and, […]
Caravaggio’s Dagger – Review by Derek Brooks, Executive Director, Harcourt House, Edmonton, AB
Derek Brooks and I met in the spring of 2012 when an event of the annual Edmonton Poetry Festival that I participated in was held at Harcourt House. I recall that the reading required the poets to sit on chairs arranged in an oblong, with the convener, Edmonton’s first poet laureate, Alice Major, positioned at […]