Czury's work illustrates the pain and emptiness of the depression-stricken Pennsylvania coal-mining region.

The following is an excerpt from his poem entitled, “Coalscape:” all this black dust / black cinder and glass ground up / in the spine of a torn-out trainbed / smoke rising out of birch on the culm bank / when it begins to rain One of his most notable collections is God's Shiny Glass Eye, published in 1987.

Critic Michael Basinski is quoted on the FootHills Publishing site as saying, “The poet’s imagination and the anthracite world intimately merge to produce a poetry that is poignantly barren and stripped of any artificial embellishment.

It is an angry poetry, but its passion is restrained and boils beneath the structure of the book.”[3] Much of Czury's work has been spread internationally.

[5] Czury has been a featured poet at the International Poetry Festivals in Argentina, Ireland, Croatia, Colombia, Lithuania, and Macedonia.

He has worked as a travelling poet in schools, homeless shelters, prisons, mental hospitals, and community centers around the world.