George Bilgere

The Door on Every Tear

Arts & Literature

“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.”