At the Axis of Imponderables

by Carpathios, Neil

• ISBN13: 9780974307053
• ISBN10: 097430705X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-01
• Publisher: Quercus Review Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

At this moment	p. 11
Another summer evening on the block	p. 12
And where oh where is the oily residue of God's invisible fingers?	p. 13
Toys left behind	p. 15
Head of a doll by the side of the road	p. 17
Street prophet	p. 18
Write about what you know	p. 20
State of grace	p. 22
Parking space	p. 23
What one would not see if one did not	p. 25
As when the gods	p. 27
Day off	p. 29
If I could call back all the yawns I lost	p. 31
No statute of limitations	p. 32
Breasts	p. 34
Cheekbones	p. 36
The poet enters heaven	p. 38
Coma	p. 39
When angels commit suicide	p. 40
Talking to today	p. 41
On emptiness	p. 42
The bored baby	p. 44
Meditation on the hospital like a mantra	p. 45
The one true word	p. 48
Daynight	p. 49
And maybe somewhere the angels applauding	p. 50
At the axis of imponderables	p. 52
At the hypnotist's	p. 54
The snow globe on God's mantel	p. 55
Unlearn what you think you know	p. 56
The ant and I	p. 58
Moment like a swinging door	p. 60
And what's a kamikaze?	p. 62
For we are not meant	p. 63
For the necessary motion of all possible outcomes	p. 64
Call it a draw : on art and love	p. 65
She says I should be more like my cat	p. 67
Birth of a kiss	p. 69
Against reincarnation	p. 71
Prose (poem) about jealousy	p. 72
Killing the roadrunner	p. 73
Every July	p. 74
The fact which I am now observing	p. 76
At this moment (II)	p. 78
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