A New Path to the Waterfall - Hardcover
Poetry was as important to Raymond Carver as his short stories and this collection sounds a key-note of enjoyment in the present rather than regret for the past. In the introduction, his widow gives a moving account of his last days, his love of Chekhov and the poems of Czeslaw Milosz.
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After-glow
Another Mystery
Artaud
The Attic
Caution
Cherish
Conspirators
For The Record
Gravy
His Bathrobe Pockets Stuffed With Notes
Hummingbird (for Tess)
In A Greek Orthodox Church Near Daphne
The Kitchen
Late Fragment
Lemonade
Letter
Looking For Work (2)
The March Into Russia
Margo
The Moon, The Train
Mriacle
My Wife
The Net
No Need
The Offending Eel
On An Old Photograph Of My Son
One More
Out
The Painter & The Fish
Poems
Proposal
Quiet Nights
The Sturgeon
Summer Fog
Sunday Night
Suspenders
Thermopylae
This Word Love
Threat
Through The Boughs
The Toes
Transformation
Two Worlds
Wake Up
What The Doctor Said
Wine
Woman Bathing
The World Book Salesman
The Young Girls
Return To Krakow In 1880
Wet Picture
The Name
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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Another Mystery
Artaud
The Attic
Caution
Cherish
Conspirators
For The Record
Gravy
His Bathrobe Pockets Stuffed With Notes
Hummingbird (for Tess)
In A Greek Orthodox Church Near Daphne
The Kitchen
Late Fragment
Lemonade
Letter
Looking For Work (2)
The March Into Russia
Margo
The Moon, The Train
Mriacle
My Wife
The Net
No Need
The Offending Eel
On An Old Photograph Of My Son
One More
Out
The Painter & The Fish
Poems
Proposal
Quiet Nights
The Sturgeon
Summer Fog
Sunday Night
Suspenders
Thermopylae
This Word Love
Threat
Through The Boughs
The Toes
Transformation
Two Worlds
Wake Up
What The Doctor Said
Wine
Woman Bathing
The World Book Salesman
The Young Girls
Return To Krakow In 1880
Wet Picture
The Name
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Though Carver is generally acknowledged to be a master of the short story, his first published work was poetry, and this collection, his last work, was completed shortly before his untimely death. His poetry is as recognizably his own as his stories and like them evokes depths of meaning beneath a surface simplicity. In her moving introduction, Carver's widow, writer Tess Gallagher, notes how often a particular poem calls to mind a corresponding story, and the reverse is also true. Indeed, to know Carver by his prose is to know him only partially. Master at illuminating those often mundane moments that starkly dramatize entire lives, Carver was also master at creating mood, and many of these poems have a striking lyrical intensity, especially when Carver unflinchingly faces death while celebrating life. A coda to a remarkable literary career.
- Charles Michaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, Mass.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Charles Michaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, Mass.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0002710439
- ISBN 13 9780002710435
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