Collection – Drumovi će poželjet ludaka (hard cover)

Adrijana Husić, from A Kaleidoscope of Encounters • The Roads Will Long for a Madman is a personal selection and a tribute—a desire to make Vito’s words accessible. It also carries a great responsibility, because I have heard and read countless times that, during his lifetime, Vito was never published by publishing houses; he did everything himself. These 120 pages bring together 60 poems and 20 specially commissioned illustrations, symbolically binding them as a reflection of time, its many layers, and the fragments of a life. (…) On these pages, I transformed a minute of silence for the living into an invitation: that one day, when we are gone, someone might pick up this book and find themselves within it.

Danica Nikolić, from A Mosaic of Memories • Just as admirers of Vito’s poetry have, over all these decades, helped ensure that his words never fall into oblivion, their interest has also helped me transform his premature death from the mere trauma of losing a parent into a wound from which new memories and new ideas continually emerge—ideas about how his poetry can remain accessible to all those who love and feel it. One such idea is the collection you now hold before you. It grew directly out of memories and took shape in the setting where Vito published his poetry during his lifetime.