Oracle: Poems

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.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Cate Marvin, Marvin Cate
• Publisher: Blue Guides Limited of London
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.08.2016
• EAN: 9780393353136
• ISBN: 978-0-393-35313-6
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 206 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 91 g
• Series: Movie Tie-in Editions; Movie Tie-in Editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets