Poetry. Winner of the Quercus Review Poetry Series, Annual Book Award, 2006. Lawrence Raab says, "Neil Carpathios's poems are lively and erotic, sweet, sad, and funny--like the best parts of daily life...." and Thomas Sayers Ellis writes, "It's been awhile since a young poet has badgered himself with has many imaginative questions as Neil Carpathios....These poems are fueled, line-by-line, by all of life's negotiations, and the ironic relationships between our jealous bodies and our often resentful, longer lasting things." Neil Carpathios is also the author of Playground of Flesh. His poems have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies, and recently in Poetry, The Georgia Review, and Poetry East.

At the Axis of Imponderables

Literature & Fiction

Carpathios, Neil

Poetry

Quercus Review Press

In these wise and lovely mortal ruminations Neil Carpathios, long one of my favorite poets, turns fifty, that perilous promontory from which the world starts to flicker like an old neon sign. But age just makes Carpathios pay attention all the more keenly. The joy of this book is that it makes us pause with him on our little human journey and take in the view while we still have time. You couldn’t ask for a better guide. —George Bilgere The poems in Neil Carpathios’ new book, though much concerned with death, are very much alive: intelligent, tender, humorous, entertaining, and even profound—sometimes all at the same time. As the best poets do, Carpathios celebrates our astonishing luck in being able, however limited our time, to “behold the lipstick kiss on a glass's rim,” and “listen to the crickets.” —Charles Harper Webb

Confessions of a Captured Angel

History & Criticism

Terrapin Books

Lifeaholics Anonymous

Kelsay Books

In The Lost Fragments of Heraclitus, award-winning poet Neil Carpathios channels the great Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, who may be a distant relative of the author. In doing so, Carpathios shares his own highly original aphorisms, which he claims may have been cowritten by the disembodied spirit of his "Uncle Heraclitus." With this Borgesian premise as the backdrop, the result is an outpouring of philosophy, spirituality, humor, and poetry in the form of hybrid literary fragments by turns magically real, metaphorical, and soul-searching. This quirky, inventive collection is sure to provoke thought, entertain, and even move the reader to a deeper appreciation of what it means to be human.

The Lost Fragments of Heraclitus: Aphorisms

Resource Publications

The Door on Every Tear: Poems

Religion & Spirituality

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.

Resource Publications (CA)

This book is the third full-length poetry collection by this award-winning poet. Those familiar with Carpathios' work know that his poems are marked by a directness of diction and startlingly original imagery. He continues the exploration of the body--in all its hungers, hurts, and intense passions, as well as the dark winding tunnels within the body toward where the spirit, or the soul, perhaps, dwells--that was the terrain of his first two collections.

Beyond the Bones

FutureCycle Press

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At the Axis of Imponderables

Confessions of a Captured Angel

Lifeaholics Anonymous

The Lost Fragments of Heraclitus: Aphorisms

The Door on Every Tear: Poems

The Door on Every Tear: Poems

Beyond the Bones