Somnia by Maria Stadnicka Jonathan Reeder they are held together by

they are held together by the capacious emotions of the very quotable poet himself

a million silver spiders play dead

precise and vividly memorable – listening to the ‘machine of spring/with all your levers thrown to max’

and two volumes translated by Forrest Gander

including Valentine Iremonger

Somnia by Maria Stadnicka Jonathan Reeder they are held together byA 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