João - Mateer, John
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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 as a cosmopolitan traveller, but also as someone sensative to others preconceptions to how they are also haunted by history. The book's concluding poems evoke a genealogy for João's restlessness: Cape Town-born parents,…mehr

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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 as a cosmopolitan traveller, but also as someone sensative to others preconceptions to how they are also haunted by history. The book's concluding poems evoke a genealogy for João's restlessness: Cape Town-born parents, Cape Malay friends, a Brazilian uncle, and the great-grandmother from an island, Tristan da Cunha, in the middle of the Atlantic. In this book of richly dense sonnets John Mateer presents us with the experiences of someone who travels the world, like so many of us, to understand himself and his place in a shared, global history.
Autorenporträt
John Mateer's books and publications have appeared in Australia, South Africa, Portugal, Austria, Macau, Sumatra, Japan and the UK. His work has been translated into European and Asian languages, Farsi and the Portuguese of Brazil. His books, João: (sonnets) and Unbelievers, or 'The Moor', were published by Shearsman. Unbelievers, or 'The Moor' has had editions in Vienna, Coimbra and Sydney. Collections of his selected poems are being translated into German and Swedish, with an expanded, translated version of João also in preparation. His prose work includes a travelogue on Sumatra, an historically accurate fiction on the origin of the Malays of the Cocos-Keeling Islands and, with a Dutch art-historian, a small book on iconoclasm. He currently resides in Perth/Boorloo, Australia.