Richard's review
The Babies
by Sabrina Orah Mark (Goodreads author!)
I don't have the book in front of me right now (I think it's in my office at the college), but the one image that sticks with me is the armies and rows of marching babies, leading with their stomachs.
That is a powerful image, and a powerful poem. I also don't have the book in front of me right now, but I am looking forward hearing Sabrina read.
Richard's review
The Babies by Sabrina Orah Mark (Goodreads author!)
Richard's review
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A wonderful book of prose poems. This is what I wrote on one of the pages in the book. I will make no claims that it is accurate, but it records part of my experience of the work: "Each perception contains every other possible perception and it's a matter of choosing what to connect to what, and all the implications of those choices are contained in each choice, and orchestrating all these choices is a consciousness that has been through a disorienting trauma...." That trauma is very much connected to the Shoah, though the Shoah is not mentioned specifically by name, as far as I remember, which makes the book that much more powerful.
I don't have the book in front of me right now (I think it's in my office at the college), but the one image that sticks with me is the armies and rows of marching babies, leading with their stomachs.
That is a powerful image, and a powerful poem. I also don't have the book in front of me right now, but I am looking forward hearing Sabrina read.