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Monk's Eye
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Ideal for readers interested in poetry, nature, philosophical reflections, and those fascinated by the cultural and emotional significance of islands.
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.
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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?”
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New York Times Book Review praises Nooteboom as "an impressive and inimitable voice among contemporary writers."
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ISBN: 9780857425478
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 15 April 2018
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
Contributors:
- Translated by David Colmer
- Illustrated by Sunandini Banerjee
- Translated by David Colmer
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 127.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 63
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About the Author
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.
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