The Babies

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Overview

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."
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Editorial Reviews

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"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

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780975499016
  • Publisher: Saturnalia Books
  • Publication date: 11/28/2004
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 68
  • Sales rank: 1,206,441
  • Product dimensions: 4.90 (w) x 6.80 (h) x 0.20 (d)

Meet 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.
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Table of Contents

Day Amen The Dumb Show The Song Thank You Box Three, Spool Five In the Origami Fields The Babies Hello The Necklace Heimlichkeiten Black Market Osip Zoo The Mustache The Visit The Proposal Non Vixit The Experiments Lasted through the Winter The Robot The Eggs The Fever The Eternal Footmen Zero Visibility The Interview {I}
The Interview {II}
The Interview {III}
Interlude The Interview {IV}
The Interview {V}
The Interview {VI}
The Ledger Transylvania, 1919
A Kaddish The Black Umbrella Airborne The Lie
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