LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john mateer

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  • That Nostalgia
    John Mateer
    Focusing on experiences of dislocation and on the importance of image and translation, That Nostalgia records John Mateer’s travels and his witnessing of the inequities and pleasures of life in many parts of the world, from China and Japan, South-East Asia and Türkiye, through Portugal, and then, further west, to Mexico and the USA. Central to his poetics is an awareness of the...
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    20,49 €

  • João
    John Mateer
    João is a book of sixty-two sonnets recounting twelve years of the life of a poet who travels widely, encountering friends and loves, translators and, sometimes, famous authors. Its protagonist is João of eGoli; his christian name is Portuguese for “John” and his epithet – “Place of Gold” –  is that of his birthplace, Johannesburg, in Zulu. The linked poems reveal João not only...
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    16,87 €

  • Emptiness
    John Mateer
    From the teeming cities of Singapore, Tokyo and Beijing to the quiet of a Malaccan street, a Honshu mountain or even a Malay cemetery in Cape Town, Mateer’s journeys are out into the unknown world and deep into the mind. Like the early twentieth-century French poet and archaeologist Victor Segalen, who is key to the book’s later poems on China, Mateer always affirms the power a...
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    16,42 €

  • Unbelievers, or ’The Moor’
    John Mateer
    World Literature Today has described John Mateer as 'the most recent reincarnation of of the international poet'. Born in South Africa, John Mateer has for the past two decades been documenting the world seen from the Indian Ocean edge of Australia, travelling frequently to Asia, Europe and elsewhere. Unbelievers or ’The Moor’, like his previous surveys of the vestiges of the P...
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    17,78 €

  • The West
    John Mateer
    Presenting major new work and poems selected from five collections, this anthology exemplifies the range, development, and cumulative power of an important poet. Revealing restless subjectivity, the visiting and revisiting of fault lines, and cultural silence, this compilation illustrates the author’s international significance and his relevance in regards to Australian culture...
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    16,33 €