Confessions of a Captured Angel

In these wise and lovely mortal ruminations Neil Carpathios, long one of my favorite poets, turns fifty, that perilous promontory from which the world starts to flicker like an old neon sign. But age just makes Carpathios pay attention all the more keenly. The joy of this book is that it makes us pause with him on our little human journey and take in the view while we still have time. You couldn't ask for a better guide. --George Bilgere

The poems in Neil Carpathios' new book, though much concerned with death, are very much alive: intelligent, tender, humorous, entertaining, and even profound--sometimes all at the same time. As the best poets do, Carpathios celebrates our astonishing luck in being able, however limited our time, to "behold the lipstick kiss on a glass's rim," and "listen to the crickets." --Charles Harper Webb

Author: Neil Carpathios
Publisher: Terrapin Books
Published: 06/14/2016
Pages: 110
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d
ISBN: 9780996987158

About the Author
Carpathios, Neil: - Neil Carpathios is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Playground of Flesh (Main Street Rag, 2006), At the Axis of Imponderables (winner of the Quercus Review Press Book Award, 2007), and Beyond the Bones (FutureCycle Press, 2009). Three of his chapbooks have won national competitions, most recently The Function of Sadness (Slipstream Press, 2015). An anthology he edited, Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio (Ohio University Press), was released in 2015. He is an associate professor of English at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio.