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    The Door on Every Tear: Poems
    The Door on Every Tear: Poems
    The Door on Every Tear: Poems
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    The Door on Every Tear: Poems

    By Neil Carpathios

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    To get at the mysterious inner essence of human experience requires an almost savage preoccupation with attentiveness. By keenly looking outward, then corkscrewing deeply inward, Neil Carpathios attempts to locate and "understand / the origin of all tears." What is the function of sadness? How can one know delight in a world of conflict, pain, and loneliness? How do birth and death overlap in this miraculous place? Clues are uncovered to these and other questions in surprising moments, such as when the poet eavesdrops on two angels hovering in the corner of his dying mother's hospital room, or when a homeless friend describes the art of homelessness. Ghosts are everywhere, as are the flesh and blood people that make life worth living. In poems of rare and raw honesty and directness, Carpathios invites the reader into the beautiful, and awful, silences of his heart.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateJan 29, 2020
    ISBN9781725257429
    The Door on Every Tear: Poems
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    Neil Carpathios

    Neil Carpathios is the author of five previous full-length poetry collections: Far Out Factoids (FutureCycle Press, 2017), Confessions of a Captured Angel (Terrapin Books, 2016), Beyond the Bones (FutureCycle Press, 2009), At the Axis of Imponderables (winner of the Quercus Review Press Book Award, 2007), and Playground of Flesh (Main Street Rag, 2006). An anthology he edited, Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio (Ohio University Press), was released in 2015.

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