Monk's Eye

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Cees Nooteboom

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Cees Nooteboom wrote the poems that make up Monk’s Eye on two islands: he began them on the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog and finished them on the Spanish island of Minorca, where he has spent summers for decades. The poems—which can be read individually or, all together, as the record of a poet’s life—are about the two islands. But they’re also about islands as an archetype, about the serenity that we can find on beaches and amid dunes, the sea sweeping imperturbably around us. Accompanied by Sunandini Banerjee’s collages, the poems in this volume are rich in allusion; they address the past, memories, illusions, dreams, and the heart of all poetry—which Nooteboom locates in the opening line of Plato’s Phaedrus, when Socrates, walking with his admirer, asks, “My dear Phaedrus, whence came you, and whither are you going?”

Author Biography:

Cees Nooteboom is one of Europe's leading living authors. His poetry, novels and travel literature have been translated into many languages. David Colmer is an Australian writer and translator who lives in Amsterdam. This is the third book of Cees Nooteboom's poetry he has translated for Seagull. Sunandini Banerjee is a Calcutta-based graphic artist and editor who has illustrated books by Thomas Bernhard, Yves Bonnefoy and Ivan Vladislavic, among others.

Release date NZ

April 15th, 2018

Author

Cees Nooteboom

Contributors

Illustrated by Sunandini Banerjee
Translated by David Colmer

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Audience

General (US: Trade)

ISBN-13

9780857425478

Product ID

27585525

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