Oracle: Poems

by Cate Marvin

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393077985
• ISBN13: 9780393077988
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 8.3"