Author Description

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