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Hold your own / Kate Tempest.

by Tempest, Kate, author.

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New York, NY : Bloomsbury, 2015.

English poetry -- 21st century.

Tiresias (Greek mythology) -- Poetry.

Electronic Resource

http://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/051/9781632862051/image/lgcover.9781632862051.jpg

9781632862051 (paperback) :

1632862050 (paperback)

107 pages ; 21 cm

First U.S. edition.

"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"--

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