Oracle Poems Author:Cate Marvin A darkly witty and elegiac new collection from an ?exhilarating, fierce [and] powerful? poet (Robert Pinsky, Washington Post). The speakers of Oracle occupy the outer-borough cityscape of New York?s Staten Island, moving through worlds glittering with refuse and peopled by ghosts. Cate Marvin?s haunting, passionate poems explore themes of loss, ... more »the vulnerability of womanhood in a world hostile to it, and the fraught, strangely compelling landscape of adolescence.