
Monk's Eye
Cees Nooteboom(Author)
Seagull Books London Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 15. April 2018
Book
Hardback
63 pages
978-0-85742-547-8 (ISBN)
Description
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?"
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Language
English
Place of publication
Greenford
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
259 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85742-547-8 (9780857425478)
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Persons
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.