Hold Your Own - 9781632862051
Un libro in lingua di Kate Tempest edito da Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2015
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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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Hold Your Own
- Sottotitolo: Poems
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Kate Tempest
- Editore: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
- Collana: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 10 Marzo '15
- Genere: Lingua Inglese
- Pagine: 107
- Dimensioni mm: 196 x 127 x 0
- EAN-13: 9781632862051