{"product_id":"9781925336627","title":"Joao","description":"Author: John Mateer\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781925336627\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Giramondo Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Mar 2018\u003cbr\u003ePages: 80\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew collection from award-winning poet John Mateer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a sequence of 64 sonnets, John Mateerdescribes the encounters of an alter-ego, Joo, as he travels across the globe,attending festivals and readings, meeting with friends, lovers, and often-famousfellow authors. Questioning identity, melancholy in disposition, troubledby dreams and memories, Joo is also an innocent, and given to moments ofillumination and joy.\u0026amp;nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMateer is both ironic and affectionate in his treatmentof this picaresque figure, creating through his sonnet sequence a narrativewhich 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 literatureto create a sense of belonging, and to invoke 'the deep mandala of meeting andfriendship'.\u0026amp;nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'JohnMateer is a poet with a peripatetic sense of self who is\u0026amp;nbsp;fascinated bycross-cultural historical currents and transformations...his poems frequentlyregister how history and its associated human ambitions and cruelties taint orinflect much that we know.' - \u003ci\u003eSydneyReview of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46867083231390,"sku":"ADS-9781925336627","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781925336627.jpg?v=1779429498","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781925336627","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}