JoaoCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781925336627 Year: 2018 Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Description: New collection from award winning poet John Mateer In a sequence of 64 sonnets, John Mateer describes the encounters of an alter ego, Joo, as he travels across the globe, attending festivals and readings, meeting with friends, lovers, and often famous fellow authors. Questioning identity, melancholy in disposition, troubled by dreams and memories, Joo is
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Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781925336627 Year: 2018 Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
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New collection from award-winning poet John Mateer
In a sequence of 64 sonnets, John Mateer describes the encounters of an alter-ego, João, as he travels across the globe, attending festivals and readings, meeting with friends, lovers, and often-famous fellow authors. Questioning identity, melancholy in disposition, troubled by dreams and memories, João is also an innocent, and given to moments of illumination and joy.
Mateer is both ironic and affectionate in his treatment of this picaresque figure, creating through his sonnet sequence a narrative which is new in Australian writing, the worldwide adventures of the poet as anti-hero, one who, despite his disappointments, still believes in the power of literature to create a sense of belonging, and to invoke 'the deep mandala of meeting and friendship'.
'John Mateer is a poet with a peripatetic sense of self who isfascinated by cross-cultural historical currents and transformations…his poems frequently register how history and its associated human ambitions and cruelties taint or inflect much that we know.' — Sydney Review of Books