Hold Your Own: Poems Tempest KatePaperback
Hold Your Own: Poems Tempest KatePaperback 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,…
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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. 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. 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.
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 This is only the beginning of his journey . . .
Hold Your Own Kate Tempest
Hold Your Tongue
Own Your Greatness
Own the Day, Own Your Life
Teach Your Own
Own Your Day
I Hold Your Heart
Own Your Self
Own Your Space
Own the Day, Own Your Life