"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.