At the Axis of Imponderables

by Neil Carpathios

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.”

Genres: Poetry

80 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2007

About the author

Neil Carpathios earned an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has been awarded various grants and fellowships, including three Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards in Poetry. He currently teaches at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio.

Reviews

[Contrary Magazine]

Read Shaindel Beers' Contrary review:
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"Carpathios appears to have an enviable imagination. He writes about those things that poets are told to write about but often neglect—from a doll’s head abandoned on the side of the road to the odd characters we encounter in our neighborhoods. As one reads the volume, it becomes obvious what Carpathios is doing—the writing-class exercise of carrying a pocket-sized notebook and writing about anything, everything, as soon as the idea comes. The downfall of the collection, unfortunately, is that too often Carpathios leaves his poems at the notebook stage."

[Ace Boggess · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a gem of a book--simple, humble, and humorous.