FORCES OF DESIRE: the desiring-machine in Hilda Hilst’s poetry
desire, assemblages, poetry, Hilda Hilst
In this text-experiment we propose the reading of poems that permeate the poetic work of
Hilda Hilst that can give us clues about the different forces of desire in this poetry. As a
protagonist, the book Do Desejo (1992) was detached from the work and analyzed in a unique
way. To think about desire, we signed up with Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy of
difference, when they elaborate the concepts of desiring machines, assemblages, becomings,
rhizomes, among others. We also use Deleuze's works to think about repetition, the
transcendental and immanence. We seek support from scholars of the philosophy of
difference, such as Orlandi, Silva, Dumoulié and Zourabichvili, who also focus on Nietzsche
and Spinoza. Every alliance created here is intended to understand what are the universes
created by and for desire in Hilda Hilst's poetry.