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Hold Your Own by Kae Tempest, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
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Hold Your Own by Kae Tempest, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
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Hold Your Own by Kae Tempest, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
From Kae Tempest
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Original price: $23.99
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Size: 8.89 x 203.2 x 0.29
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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. | Hold Your Own by Kae Tempest, Paperback | Indigo Chapters