Oracle: Poems
Cate Marvin
(Author)
Description
The speakers of Oracle occupy the outer-borough cityscape of New York's Staten Island, where they move through worlds glittering with refuse and peopled by ghosts--of a dead lover, of a friend lost to suicide, of a dog with glistening eyes. Marvin's haunting, passionate poems explore themes of loss, of the vulnerability of womanhood in a world hostile to it, and of the fraught, strangely compelling landscape of adolescence.
Product Details
Price
$25.95
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
March 09, 2015
Pages
96
Dimensions
6.4 X 0.53 X 8.35 inches | 0.51 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780393077988
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About the Author
Cate Marvin is the author of Fragment of the Head of a Queen and World's Tallest Disaster. A winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize and a Whiting Award, her poetry has been published in the Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, and elsewhere. A cofounder of VIDA and a professor of English at CUNY, she lives in Maplewood, New Jersey.
Reviews
Channels the colorful voices of Staten Island.
These are poems of feeling, memory, and calamity, of a life lived near the edge and an edge that nevertheless always resolves itself into a haunting ethical music. This is a wonderful collection of poems. It makes a powerful claim on the reader at every turn, on every page.--Eavan Boland
A collection...of spectral, charged poems: a wild, ferocious bunch capable of emotional darkness, bound by a strong poetic I...a successful call to arms.
These are poems of feeling, memory, and calamity, of a life lived near the edge and an edge that nevertheless always resolves itself into a haunting ethical music. This is a wonderful collection of poems. It makes a powerful claim on the reader at every turn, on every page.--Eavan Boland
A collection...of spectral, charged poems: a wild, ferocious bunch capable of emotional darkness, bound by a strong poetic I...a successful call to arms.
