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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 of loss, of the vulnerability of
womanhood in a world hostile to it, and of the fraught, strangely
compelling landscape of adolescence.
Entering its fifteenth year, Best New Poets has established itself
as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for
poetry lovers. The only publication of its kind, this annual
anthology is made up exclusively of work by writers who have not
yet published a full-length book. The poems included in this
eclectic sampling represent the best from the many that have been
nominated by the country's top literary magazines and writing
programs, as well as some two thousand additional poems submitted
through an open online competition. The work of the fifty writers
represented here provides the best perspective available on the
continuing vitality of poetry as it is being practiced today.
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, the vulnerability of womanhood in a world
hostile to it, and the fraught, strangely compelling landscape of
adolescence. From A Thousand Degrees It s called a thousand
degrees. Think about love. Seemed what the clutch of pot-bellied
women in striped shirts were muttering drunk among one another as I
skulked past them on a 2 a.m. street s sidewalk buckling with the
heave of July s late heat, skitterish and still drunk from cheap
wine I d sucked down in the City."
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