"Poems is a vast slab of a thing
Her first book-length collection
the sex (especially the sex) that she has embraced like a method actor in search of a character
After years of experience writing and translating poetry
Somnia by Maria Stadnicka David Constantine "Poems is a vast slabA chisel, a hammer, a lyre; reportage, intimate feelings, quips and criticisms. Maria Stadnickas poems are clusters of consciousness, graphic, material images of our world. Her language assaults, bends, cajoles, thrusts a saber into the darkness of the very language she employs to explore death, degradation, the non recognition of the human individual, war, urban violence, in short, the all too present context of our daily lives. [] What concerns