Joao

New collection from award-winning poet John Mateer In a sequence of 64 sonnets, John Mateerdescribes the encounters of an alter-ego, Joo, as he travels across the globe,attending festivals and readings, meeting with friends, lovers, and often-famousfellow authors. Questioning identity, melancholy in disposition, troubledby dreams and memories, Joo is also an innocent, and given to moments ofillumination and joy.  Mateer is both ironic and affectionate in his treatmentof this picaresque figu