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> *PSPS (Poetry Salzburg Pamphlet Series) number 8, Mario Susko's /The > Final Take/, is available now.* > > > "Susko is a metaphysical time keeper, a philosophical detective > sifting through the desolate inconclusive evidence left by war and > human desolation, the relentless alienist unraveling through dialogue > and symbol, the deceptive tangle of memories and dreams, probing the > borders between sanity and madness, reality and dream. He is a > cinematographer of language, capturing the dialectics of existence and > survival in flickering, indelible images." > > Robert Karmon > > "To record history is both to record and to alter it, but the poet's > harder task is to resist this type of petrifying obfuscation and > preserve the experience without simply repeating it. This is what > Susko attempts to do." > > Tim Wood > > Mario Susko (born 1941) is a witness and survivor of the war in > Bosnia. His most recent collections are /Closing Time/ (2008), > /Epi/Logos/ (2011), and /Framing Memories/ (2011). He is an editor and > translator of major American writers, including Saul Bellow, Bernard > Malamud, and Kurt Vonnegut. In 2012 he was named Long Island Poet of > the Year by the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association and also elected > member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is the > recipient of numerous awards, among them the 1998 Premio > Internazionale di Poesia e Letteratura "Nuove Lettere" (Italy) and the > 2000 Tin Ujevic Award for the best book of poems, /Versus Exsul/, > published in Croatia in 1999. He is a Professor in the English > Department at Nassau Community College, New York. > > > > Mario Susko: /The Final Take/. 40 pp. ISBN-13 978-3-901993-39-8 (= > PSPS 8) > £5.00 (+ 1.00 p&p), ¤6.00 (+ 1.00 p&p), US$ 8.50 (+ 1.50 p&p) > > > For more information and for orders please visit > http://www.poetrysalzburg.com <http://www.poetrysalzburg.com/>. > > Wolfgang Görtschacher & Andreas Schachermayr >