| 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.
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.
