Oracle: Poems (Movie Tie-In Editions)

Marvin, Cate

ISBN 10: 0393353133 / ISBN 13: 9780393353136

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2016

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Very Good Condition - May show some limited signs of wear and may have a remainder mark. Pages and dust cover are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Oracle: Poems (Movie Tie-In Editions)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393353133
• ISBN 13: 9780393353136
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

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.