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Susko, Mario

Poetry

Yuganta Pr

Life After

Poetry. If you don't yet know Mario Susko's poetry, let this be the book you come to treasure. An international reader, Susko's popular YouTube video (by poetryvlog.com), indeed shows Mario's distinctive dragged down humanity--a tendency to survive by the absurd rather than to be torn apart by the tragic (Library Journal)--still lifting itself to the page, as if at least out of witness. What is surreal is existential. If Bukowski had endured Croatia in war, this might be a kindred result. Only, the cynic is beauty. Susko's poetry is the friend you're glad found a way to bring himself to water.

Closing Time

Harbor Mountain Press

Poetry. "Susko leaves his readers with no easy answers. We must weigh dozens of opposing concepts in our own minds, and decide for ourselves what to keep and what to let go, to construct a self-defined sense of security in a disquieting world.... It is a small comfort, but at least it is a real one. Mario Susko's poems make no false promises, but instead offer authentic experiences and, yes, pleasures"—Amy Schrader.

Framing Memories

Solitude, war, exile and suffering are illuminated with unforgettable subtlety, style and detail by Mario Susko, described by Hugh Seidman as “one man speaking before the unalterable and uncaring universe.” Susko maintains his spirit of wonder in these vivid and exquisitely crafted poems.
Mario Susko has translated James Baldwin, Saul Bellow and most recently Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass into Croatian. He has won the prestigious Nuove Lettere Premio Internazionale di Poesia e Letteratura, the Council of Europe Award and three Fulbright scholarships.

Eternity on Hold

Turtle Point Press

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