Winner of the "Nuove Lettere" International Prize for Poetry and Literature (1998) for the Italian edition of this book	Site Home Yuganta Home Order Contact Yuganta Beyond artifice and hierarchies, the voice of Mario Susko’s poetry engages, if not the oldest, then at least the final prerogative of the poet: one human being speaking before the unalterable and uncaring universe. His eye is clear, his heart passionate, while his considerable intelligence grapples with the usual unanswerable madness that has come to characterize this century. In this particular instance, it is the Bosnian catastrophe, and Susko, a native of Sarajevo, is eminently qualified to serve as our witness. —Hugh Seidman, Poet