‘Maria Stadnicka’s pieces from The Unmoving are exceptionally accomplished, puzzling, rich, linguistically aware yet full of dark emotion. The only escape from the imposed absolute of non-being is resolution to go forward irrationally free.’ The poems create a sense of urgency and mystery. In Stadnicka’s poems social, personal, and literary landscapes are fused and at times must be forcibly dislocated, both repositioned and torn apart, so that one can continue. Literature becomes the communication and solidarity that permit the step towards wholeness. The chance for the existence of a future or even the future is removed. What concerns Maria Stadnicka? She is speaking about the discontinuity of personal space and the intrusion of economic and political forces in an individual’s life that leads to fragmentation and, ultimately, to the dissolution of one’s reality. 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. Maria Stadnicka’s poems are clusters of consciousness, graphic, material images of our world. ‘A chisel, a hammer, a lyre reportage, intimate feelings, quips and criticisms.
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