Constellations of Desire forms the third part of Solitary Ethics, a sequence on ethical and moral considerations. The book is available here. Book One, Caravaggio’s Dagger, deals with right action in the context of the experience of the individual will; Book Two, Mahler and Freud Meet in Leiden, in the context of the absolute nature […]
Hendrik Slegtenhorst Constellations of Desire
Constellations of Desire – Return to Vancouver
. Vancouver Vancouver, BC – Edmonton, AB, 2-26 February 2015 . In the accent-heavy emigrant’s taxicab We bridge the Fraser River, at the point Where the drive train sheared, nine years ago; The electric mentality of overwhelm Preamble to this reconfiguration. . Place of loss and flight of welcome. . Here at the sea the […]
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 […]