SABRINA ORAH MARK

 

 

REVIEWED AT

Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review

The Boston Review

The Constant Critic

Diagram

Rain Taxi

Rattle

Traffic

Xantippe 4/5

 

"War, dark drafts, desertions, abandoned homes-these poems move darkly down, as the poem, The Babies, concludes, 'into a past I still swear I never had.' They offer a look at a time we must face, or else face its consequences. It happens that, in The Babies, we aren't sure if we are looking at past, present, or future. Sabrina Orah Mark ultimatley posits what is surely meant as praise for poetry: timelessness."

JANE MILLER
author of Memory at These Speeds

 

"Sabrina Orah Mark's marvelous -- and I mean marvelous in both senses of the word -- collection of prose poems is a masterful assimilation of historical specifics into the childlike consciousness of an infinite presence. 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. They are owned by the imagination that created them and the history that created her."

CLAUDIA RANKINE
author of Don't Let Me Be Lonely