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