Some books are written to be read. Others feel as though they were written because silence was no longer survivable.

Lucid Dreams and Wanted Nightmares belongs unmistakably to the latter.

From the very first pages, Erem Sahintepe does not ease the reader in — he opens a door and leaves it ajar, inviting (or perhaps daring) you to step into a mind that is already mid-storm. This is not poetry that observes emotion from a safe distance. It inhabits it. Breathes it. At times, it feels as though the poems are less crafted than released.