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Versus Exsul - Softcover

Susko, Mario

 
9780938999126: Versus Exsul

Synopsis

Mario Susko, a witness and survivor of the war in Bosnia, received his M.A. and Ph.D. from SUNY Stony Brook in the 1970s and moved back to the US in 1993. A three-time Fulbright scholar, he has taught at the University of Sarajevo, but has lived more than half of the past 36 years in the US. He is currently an Associate Professor in the English Department at Nassau Community College in Garden City, NY. Mario Susko has published 75 books, 25 of which are volumes of his own poems. He has also edited and translated several anthologies and is the recipient of many awards, including the 1997 and 2006 Nassau Review Poetry Award, the 1998 Premio Internazionale di {Poesia e Letteratura "Nuove Lettere" (Naples, Italy), the 2000 Tin Ujevic Award for Versus Exsul for the best book of poems published in Croatia in 1999, and the 2003 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. His poem "Conversion," published and nominated by "Dream Catcher" (UK), was short-listed for the 2004 Forward Poetry Prize. "The Paumanok Review", "Nassau Review", and "Branches Quarterly" have nominated his poems for the Pushcart Prize, and "The Interpreter's House" (UK) and "Dream Catcher" for the 2006 Forward Prize in the best single poem category.

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