Oracle Poems [Paperback]

Poems finely tuned . . . full of inventive echoes andspring-loaded syntax.She takes no prisoners.Intense and intimate.Channels the colorful voices of Staten Island.Spectral, charged poems: a wild, ferocious bunch capable of emotional darkness, bound by a strong poetic I . . . a successful call to arms.These are poems of feeling, memory, and calamity, of a life lived near the edge and an edge that nevertheless always resolves itself into a haunting ethical music. This is a wonderful collection of poems. It makes a powerful claim on the reader at every turn, on every page.A witty and elegiac new collection from the author of exhilarating, fierce [and] powerful verse (Robert Pinsky,