David Lee Garrison

The Door on Every Tear

Arts & Literature

“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.”