Kate Tempest: Hold Your Own
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- Materiaali: Nidottu
- Kustantaja: Bloomsbury USA
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9781632862051
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'My heart throws its head against my ribs, / it's denting every bone it's venting something it has known since I arrived and felt it beat. 'Kate Tempest, winner of the Ted Hughes Award for 'Brand New Ancients' and widely regarded as the UK's leading spoken word poet, has produced a new poem-sequence of electrifying power. Based on the myth of the blind prophet Tiresias, 'Hold Your Own' is a riveting tale of youth and experience, sex and love, wealth and poverty, community and alienation. Walking in the forest one morning, a young man disturbs two copulating snakes--and is punished by the goddess Hera, who turns him into a woman. This is only the beginning of his journey […] Weaving elements of classical myth, autobiography and social commentary, Tempest uses the story of the gender-switching, clairvoyant Tiresias to create four sequences of poems, addressing childhood, manhood, womanhood, and late life. The result is a rhythmically hypnotic tour de force--and a hugely ambitious leap forward for one of the most broadly talented and compelling young writers today.