Oracle: Poems

Oracle: Poems

<p><strong>A witty and elegiac new collection from the author of "exhilarating, fierce [and] powerful” verse (Robert Pinsky, <em>Washington Post</em>).</strong></p><p>The speakers of <em>Oracle</em> 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.</p>