Boris Maruna is a Croatian poet who lived for thirty years in political exile in South American countries, Spain, Great Britain and United States. In exile, he collaborated with other Croatian writers in magazine Hrvatska revija, where he published his first poetry books: „I poslije nas ostaje ljubav“ (1964), „Govorim na sav glas“ (1972) and „Ograničenja“ (1986). Life in foreign countries, this political forced separateness from his beloved country, resulted with the dominant motives in his poetry, especially in poetry from exilian phase of his work. In the 1990s, Maruna will come back to his homeland at last, where he will face the rough time for Croatia. His first published book in Croatia called „Ovako“ (1992) still belongs to his exile phase of work because of that the most poems are made during his life abroad. After the Homeland War in Croatia, political parties started to take Croatia in directions that Maruna did not like and was dissapointed by the act of Croatian political forces. In 1996, Maruna published his last work, „Bilo je lakše voljeti te iz daljine“, in which he will settle with domain political parties and his colleagues from exile and from Croatia. Afterwards, Maruna will leave Croatia for the second time. He died in 2007. in Zagreb. This work is based on Boris Maruna's poetry. In the first section are historical overview of Croatian literature after the World War Two and the one in the exile from that time. Literature from this time was influence for Maruna's early poetry. Second section explores the life of Boris Maruna, his life in Croatia and in the exile. Third part of this work is based on his poetics, and his influences from other cultures – beat poetry from fifties and sixties in United States, influnce of Charles Bukowski, Nicanor Parra and Octavio Paz. After characteristic of his poetics comes analysis of his poetry from first to last poetry book with the examples of his poems.