{"product_id":"the-door-on-every-tear-poems-paperback","title":"The Door on Every Tear: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNeil Carpathios\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeil Carpathios\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of five previous full-length poetry collections: \u003ci\u003eFar Out Factoids\u003c\/i\u003e (FutureCycle Press, 2017), \u003ci\u003eConfessions of a Captured Angel\u003c\/i\u003e (Terrapin Books, 2016), \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Bones\u003c\/i\u003e (FutureCycle Press, 2009), \u003ci\u003eAt the Axis of Imponderables\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Quercus Review Press Book Award, 2007), and \u003ci\u003ePlayground of Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e (Main Street Rag, 2006). An anthology he edited, \u003ci\u003eEvery River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio\u003c\/i\u003e (Ohio University Press), was released in 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.18 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 29, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42773108654176,"sku":"9781725257405","price":22.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/2BdIcB3KY9781725257405.webp?v=1779821852","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-door-on-every-tear-poems-paperback","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}