| #469931 in Books | Marvin Cate | 2016-07-12 | 2016-07-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.30 x.30 x5.50l,.0 | File type: PDF | 96 pages | Oracle Poems||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Cate Marvin is an amazing poet|By Aly|Cate Marvin is a spectacular contemporary poet. This collection is emotive and heartfelt, conscious of the way girlhood looms over "girls." Many of the poems meditate about high school and its effects, especially on young girls who are circumscribed by the social perceptions of their 'gender.' My favorite is "Dead Girl G*%g B*&g," beca||“Poems finely tuned . . . full of inventive echoes and spring-loaded syntax.” - Dialogist
“She takes no prisoners.” - NPR
“Intense and intimate.
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 ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Oracle: Poems (Movie Tie-In Editions) | Cate Marvin. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
