Oracle: Poems
Author | : Cate Marvin |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 2015-03-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780393246575 |
ISBN-13 | : 0393246574 |
Rating | : 4/5 (574 Downloads) |
Download or read book Oracle: Poems written by Cate Marvin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.