Oracle Poems - Movie Tie-In Editions Author:Cate Marvin 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 do... more »g 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.« less