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[log in to unmask]" type="cite">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)
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