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." Neil Carpathios is also the author of Playground of Flesh. His poems have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies, and recently in Poetry, The Georgia Review, and Poetry East.

Author Hometown: Masillon, OH USA



About the author: Neil Carpathios is an American poet. He attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop . Carpathios lives and teaches in Massillon, Ohio. Carpathios is the author of several award-winning chapbooks. He has been published in The Georgia Review, Poetry East, Quercus Review which awarded him its 2006 Book Award for At The Axis of Imponderables.