Oracle: Poems

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
Cover of the book Oracle: Poems by Cate Marvin, W. W. Norton & Company
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Author: Cate Marvin ISBN: 9780393246575
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication: March 9, 2015
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company Language: English
Author: Cate Marvin
ISBN: 9780393246575
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication: March 9, 2015
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English

A witty and elegiac new collection from the author of "exhilarating, fierce [and] powerful” verse (Robert Pinsky, Washington Post).

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.

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A witty and elegiac new collection from the author of "exhilarating, fierce [and] powerful” verse (Robert Pinsky, Washington Post).

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.

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