{"product_id":"9781925336627-joao","title":"Joao","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew collection from award-winning poet John Mateer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn a sequence of 64 sonnets, John Mateer\ndescribes the encounters of an alter-ego, João, as he travels across the globe,\nattending festivals and readings, meeting with friends, lovers, and often-famous\nfellow authors. Questioning identity, melancholy in disposition, troubled\nby dreams and memories, João is also an innocent, and given to moments of\nillumination and joy. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMateer is both ironic and affectionate in his treatment\nof this picaresque figure, creating through his sonnet sequence a narrative\nwhich 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\nto create a sense of belonging, and to invoke ‘the deep mandala of meeting and\nfriendship’. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘John\nMateer is a poet with a peripatetic sense of self who is fascinated by\ncross-cultural historical currents and transformations…his poems frequently\nregister how history and its associated human ambitions and cruelties taint or\ninflect much that we know.’ — \u003ci\u003eSydney\nReview of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Giramondo Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33783522853000,"sku":"9781925336627","price":19.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0371\/3443\/4440\/products\/joao-9781925336627-716768.jpg?v=1690122136","url":"https:\/\/littlelostbookshop.com.au\/products\/9781925336627-joao","provider":"The Little Lost Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}