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All of Us the Collected Poems

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Description for All of Us the Collected Poems Paperback. This edition brings together in one volume (in their US order of publication), the poems of "Fires", "When Water Comes Togeher With Other Water", "Ultramarine", "A New Path to the Waterfall" and "No Heroics Please". The text is supplied with brief notes on first publication. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 31. Weight in Grams: 442.

Raymond Carver, who became a master-storyteller of his generation and was hailed in Europe as 'the American Chekhov', wrote of himself: "I began as a poet. My first publication was a poem. So I suppose on my tombstone I'd be very pleased if they put 'Poet and short-story writer - and occasional essayist', in that order."

This complete edition allows readers to experience the range and overwhelming power of Carver's poetry for the first time. It brings together in the order of their American publication the poems of Fires (1985), Where Water Comes Together with Other Water (1986), ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Harvill Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781860463648
SKU
9781860463648
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Ref
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About Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first short stories appeared in Esquire during Gordon Lish's tenure as fiction editor in the 1970s. Carver's work began to reach a wider audience with the 1976 publication of Will You Please be Quiet, Please?, but it was not until the 1981 publication of What We Talk About When We ... Read more

Reviews for All of Us the Collected Poems
Better known for his short stories, Raymond Carver was also an accomplished poet, as this superbly presented collection attests
Anthony Quinn
Harpers & Queen
The cumulative effect is exhilarating: happiness, yes, but about as far as you can get from the bland, cosmic gruntlement currently being peddled by so many American poets
Times Literary Supplement
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