Divisible by Itself and One

Resumen del libro

I want to sing you early songs. Go deeper. I want to take you back where you began,Find the scraps of you you hid in secretAnd bring them back to life beneath my tongue.

Divisible by Itself and One is the powerful new collection from our foremost truth-teller Kae Tempest. Ruminative, wise, with a newer, more contemplative and metaphysical note running through, it is a book engaged with the big questions and the emotional states in which we live and create. Some of the poems experiment with form, some are free, and yet all are politically and morally conscious.

Divisible by Itself and One is also a book about human form, the body as boundary and how we are read by the world. Taking its bearings - and title - from the prime number, Divisible by Itself and One is concerned, ultimately, with integrity: how to live in honest relationship with oneself and others. "Tempest delivers their thoughts gorgeously, rhythmically, but also with clarity and a fierce grace" Observer

Biografía del autor

(Londres, 1985) comenzó su carrera en el mundo del x{0026}lt;i spoken wordx{0026}lt;/i y las x{0026}lt;i slamsx{0026}lt;/i de poesía. Desde entonces ha cultivado distintos géneros literarios: poesía, narrativa y teatro. En 2013 se convirtió en le poeta más joven en ganar el Premio Ted Hughes, obtuvo una nominación al Premio Costa Book y al BRIT. Ha formado parte, en dos ocasiones, de la selección del Premio Mercury y cuenta con dos nominaciones a los Ivor Novello Awards. Le ha sido concedido el título de Next Generation Poet por la Poetry Book Society, un galardón que se entrega cada diez años. x{0026}lt;i Cuando la vida te da un martillo,x{0026}lt;/i su primera novela (Sexto Piso, 2017), comparte personajes, tramas y temas con su álbum x{0026}lt;i Everybody Downx{0026}lt;/i (2016). En 2019 publicó su cuarto disco, x{0026}lt;i The Book of Traps and Lessons.x{0026}lt;/i Tempest creció en el sureste de Londres, donde aún vive.