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.

Other poems by Neil Carpathios in Verse Daily:
November 2, 2016:   "The Captured Angel Comments on Death" "It's a great invention...."

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Other poems on the web by Neil Carpathios:
Two poems
"When I Ask What the Secret of Life Is"
"When the Cashier is Not Friendly"
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Neil Carpathios's Website.

Neil Carpathios According to Wikipedia.

About The Door on Every Tear:

"These poems by Neil Carpathios focus on life as it streams around us and through us 'with its beautiful chaos.' They make us laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time. They get down to the real nitty gritty. The poet's mother dies and he remembers her complaining that he does not write about her. His father, a physician, still buys things at the dollar store because he remembers being poor and hungry. A friend who was homeless for a year ate discarded Twinkies with ants on them. In the tears of this book we find the depth of our existence."
—David Lee Garrison

"In this masterful collection, Neil Carpathios has perfected the art of paying attention. He reminds us that silence talks, that quiet moments matter, in poems that magnify our connections to one another--to the janitor who dances with his broom, to the man who sells God's laughter in an empty jar, to angels who return to us in a lock of hair, in the sound of a wind chime."
—Cathryn Essinger

"The Door on Every Tear is a kind of contemporary Anatomy of Melancholy. Carpathios's gift is to show us, in unsparing detail, this difficult, broken world, and to give us a sense that we are all in this together, figuring out how to make sense of muddled, disappointed lives, those 'hours alone / Saturday nights, chain-smoking, / drinking cheap wine.' The marvel is that somehow, despite everything, he gives us reason for hope. Even joy."
—George Bilgere

"Neil Carpathios gives us whole worlds we know exist but haven't actually seen. And what a welcomed revelation: his visions of these worlds are deep, bold, evocative--even sometimes horrifying but still valued. . . . He achieves what poetry is meant to achieve: fresh, new insight."
—Nicholas Samaras