"Fragment of the Head of a Queen makes it clear why Cate Marvin is becoming one of our essential poets."--Rodney Jones

Cate Marvin's new poems, their wrought music, unblinking focus, and hard-edged sensuality, are wreathed with an entirely different silence than her first collection. The brokenness and loss of the fragmented queen--seeming to rise up through centuries--is their tutelary spirit.

Cate Marvin is the author of World's Tallest Disaster, awarded the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize by Robert Pinsky and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award (2002). She teaches creative writing in Staten Island, New York.

Author: Cate Marvin
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 08/01/2007
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.36w x 0.33d
ISBN: 9781932511512


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/25/2007 pg. 35
Library Journal 10/01/2007 pg. 75

About the Author
Marvin's first book, World's Tallest Disaster (Sarabande, 2002) was awarded the 2001 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry by Robert Pinsky and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award (2002). Her poems have appeared in New England Review, The Antioch Review, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, and Ploughshares, among others. She is a creative writing professor in Staten Island,