A review by llatai
Tsim Tsum by Sabrina Orah Mark

challenging mysterious fast-paced

5.0

A series of prose-poems that serve as episodes in a surreal (and occasionally semi-comedic) romantic drama between Beatrice and Walter B. Conflict, heartache, tragedy, whimsy - this book has it all. I would caution that it's not a single-read sort of book; there's undoubtedly more to the meandering tale of Beatrice and Walter B. than can be digested in a single read. These poems have a veneer of simplicity, beneath which they are dense and weighty with possibility - like fairy/folk tales; this is characteristic of Sabrina Orah Mark's work and is absolutely the expectation I had when I purchased Tsim Tsum. She never disappoints.