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I read the book Black Holes Within Us in one breath, although it's a book that calls for many rereadings. It fascinates with the wisdom, the know-how and the need to disintegrate things down to a crystal and honest simplicity and put them in function of the great questions of existence, making them a priority for the harmony between counter-realities in order to achieve the fullness of love and indefiniteness of death. I was especially captivated by the search for balance in the chaos of existence and the surroundings, or the struggle between the vital forces of survival and the imposed historical forces.
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Luan Starova
After having thoroughly read this book many times, I’d like to admit that there, in my mirror, was a surprised emoticon – an imaginary signature of this rare type of poetry, of this syllables’ chase, that reminded me of the great jazz master Thelonious Monk, of this deeply experienced and honest lyrical river that shines with the strength of Picasso’s and Cleo’s conscious infantilism, which best articulates man’s purest, most primal, and most imminent, forcing him to create and recreate...
Saso Gigov - Gis
The title of Markoska’s first book of poetry (All Tributaries Flow Into My Basin, 2009) reveals to us that in the poetic riverbed of each type of poetry, tributaries from the reading experiences of the author can be seen which, in the case of this lyric, are not limited only to poetry or literature, but other arts (primarily music) as well. Knowing Markoska’s experience with percussion instruments, it is not surprising that the musical semiosis dominates in the poems in Headfirst Toward the Heights (2012).
Vladimir Martinovski
It’s more than obvious that M.M. from Skopje has too much energy and too many talents. In her case, the real question is not ‘how’ but ‘when’? When does she manage, while constantly competing creatively with her own musical and academic engagements, to write in such a relaxed and humorous manner?
Aleksandar Prokopiev
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