Warning! You can't go on with this book without changing your room! Every line has the
capacity to communicate something to you and jeopardize your settlement. Did Czury
write this? Or was it Conway Twitty? Or perhaps those Sikhs playing cricket in an Italian
park? In fact, you can find the author at a street corner in Valparaiso, or beside a lake
near Rome, or lying on the grass in Medellin. To read means to travel and to go through
something, and to replace the commodity of reality too. The world and words travel in
these pages to illuminate the reader's imagination. You are forewarned.
—Juan Cameron, author of La pasión según Dick Tracy
Craig Czury has been on the road his entire lifetime. Czury takes the temperature of our clime while on the move, in motion, just like the great poets of yore. In Fifteen Stones, readers will discover landscapes and languages, and those who hold them dear, on the move, in migration through Czury's deeply imaginative and incandescent prose poems.
—Mark Nowak, author of Coal Mountain Elementary
Fifteen Stones is a finely-structured sequence of nonlinear thoughts. Time is adrift in the author's fragmented search for "a belonging." Craig Czury is a nomad who crosses
physical and metaphysical boundaries as if he were in permanent spiritual exile: Was I
the same me? As was the case for Edmond Jabès, surrealism is Czury's choice to untangle
daily tangible nonsense, drink coffee and write the fog clear. And with his piercing sense of
humor, he brilliantly ties literary references and life experiences.
—Zingonia Zingone, author of Le tentazioni della Luce
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