Unbelievers, or 'The Moor' - Couverture souple

Mateer, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848612818 ISBN 13 : 9781848612815

Editeur : Shearsman Books, 2013

Synopsis

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 visages of the Portuguese Empire in Southern Barbarians and of his memories of South Africa in Ex-White-described by novelist J.M. Coetzee as "rolling back the tide of forgetting"-recovers aspects of the hidden past that haunt our present. In Unbelievers, Mateer seeks out evidence of the importance of the Islamic and Arabic history in places as diverse as Dubai, Seville, Cairo and the Portuguese village of Monsanto. He is not only interested in the past but in the deep present, its poetics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Mateer was born in South Africa. He currently lives in Australia where he has published several books of poems and a travelogue about Indonesia. He has made it his practice to publish outside of the usual circulation of English-language literature, often having the initial publication of his work issued by small publishers in Johannesburg, Kyoto, Perth or Sumatra. Selections of his poems have been translated into Japanese, Indonesian, Portuguese and German. His awards include the Victorian Premier's prize for poetry and the Centenary Medal for his contribution to Australian literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Shearsman Books
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848612818
• ISBN 13: 9781848612815
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 172
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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