The Babies - by Sabrina Orah Mark (Paperback)

About the Book

Funny and frightening, moving and unsettling, the prose poems in Mark's debut collection take readers on a wild ride

Book Synopsis

Funny and frightening, moving and unsettling, the prose poems in Mark's debut collection take readers on a wild ride The Babies, by Sabrina Orah Mark, is the premier winner of the Saturnalia Books Poetry Contest, judged by renowned poet Jane Miller (Memory at These Speeds: New and Selected Poetry). Of The Babies, poet Claudia Rankine writes, "Rarely do we encounter poems that are so precisely framed, though on their surface seemingly whimsical and erratic. These poems are gorgeous, intelligent, and disturbing."

Review Quotes

"Like the blouses to which Mark repeatedly refers, blouses opened and buttoned again, sometimes loose and sometimes confining, these poems remain tatter and patch and scrap, but also become whole."--Ray McDaniel "Constant Critic" (1/1/2004 12:00:00 AM)

"The vividness with which Orah Mark processes such chaos is exacting; however amplified, its pitch almost always feels authentic."--Shara Lessley "Diagram" (1/1/2004 12:00:00 AM)

In place of poetic epiphany and absolute closure, Orah Mark infuses in The Babies, the world's disorder--its chords are those of disruption, confusion, uncertainty. The vividness with which Orah Mark processes such chaos is exacting; however amplified, its pitch almost always feels authentic.-- "Diagram"

Sabrina Orah Mark's debut collection is uncommonly taut, an achievement made all the more remarkable given that its poems are anything but spare...-- "The Boston Review"

"In place of poetic epiphany and absolute closure, Orah Mark infuses in The Babies, the world's disorder--its chords are those of disruption, confusion, uncertainty. The vividness with which Orah Mark processes such chaos is exacting; however amplified, its pitch almost always feels authentic."--Diagram

"Sabrina Orah Mark's debut collection is uncommonly taut, an achievement made all the more remarkable given that its poems are anything but spare..."--," The Boston Review

"Sabrina Orah Mark s debut collection is uncommonly taut, an achievement made all the more remarkable given that its poems are anything but spare "," The Boston Review"

Like the blouses to which Mark repeatedly refers, blouses opened and buttoned again, sometimes loose and sometimes confining, these poems remain tatter and patch and scrap, but also become whole. Ray McDaniel, Constant Critic"

The vividness with which Orah Mark processes such chaos is exacting; however amplified, its pitch almost always feels authentic. Shara Lessley, Diagram"

Constant Critic"

Diagram"

The Boston Review"

About the Author

SABRINA ORAH MARK was raised in Brooklyn, New York. She received her B.A. from Barnard College, and her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Mark, a recipient of a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center, has had poems published in American Letters and Commentary, Conduit, Denver Quarterly, Fence, The Canary, Volt, and other journals.