Where Water Comes Together with Other Water Poems

by CARVER, RAYMOND

• ISBN13: 9780394743271
• ISBN10: 039474327X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1986-03-12
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

A vast collection of poems which won "Poetry" magazine's Levinson prize."Somehow the nuances of daily experience, the warmth, humor, and reflection the poet brings to subjects are quite unlike anyone else's." - J.Parisi

Author Biography

Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (a National Book Award nominee in 1977), was followed by What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1984), and Where I'm Calling From in 1988, when he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died August 2, 1988, shortly after completing the poems of A New Path to the Waterfall.

Table of Contents

Woolworth's, 1954	p. 3
Radio Waves	p. 6
Movement	p. 8
Hominy and Rain	p. 9
The Road	p. 11
Fear	p. 12
Romanticism	p. 13
The Ashtray	p. 14
Still Looking Out for Number One	p. 16
Where Water Comes Together With Other Water	p. 17
Happiness	p. 21
The Old Days	p. 22
Our First House in Sacramento	p. 24
Next Year	p. 25
To My Daughter	p. 27
Anathema	p. 29
Energy	p. 31
Locking Yourself Out, Then Trying to Get Back In	p. 32
Medicine	p. 34
Wenas Ridge	p. 35
Reading	p. 37
Rain	p. 38
Money	p. 39
Aspens	p. 40
At Least	p. 43
The Grant	p. 44
My Boat	p. 45
The Poem I Didn't Write	p. 47
Work	p. 48
In the Year 2020	p. 49
The Juggler at Heaven's Gate	p. 50
My Daughter and Apple Pie	p. 51
Commerce	p. 52
The Fishing Pole of the Drowned Man	p. 53
A Walk	p. 54
My Dad's Wallet	p. 55
Ask Him	p. 59
Next Door	p. 62
The Caucasus: A Romance	p. 63
A Forge, and a Scythe	p. 66
The Pipe	p. 67
Listening	p. 68
In Switzerland	p. 69
A Squall	p. 75
My Crow	p. 76
The Party	p. 77
After Rainy Days	p. 78
Interview	p. 79
Blood	p. 80
Tomorrow	p. 81
Grief	p. 82
Harley's Swans	p. 83
Elk Camp	p. 87
The Windows of the Summer Vacation Houses	p. 89
Memory	p. 92
Away	p. 93
Music	p. 94
Plus	p. 95
All Her Life	p. 96
The Hat	p. 97
Late Night With Fog and Horses	p. 100
Venice	p. 102
The Eve of Battle	p. 103
Extirpation	p. 104
The Catch	p. 105
My Death	p. 106
To Begin With	p. 108
The Cranes	p. 111
A Haircut	p. 115
Happiness in Cornwall	p. 117
Afghanistan	p. 118
In a Marine Light Near Sequim, Washington	p. 119
Eagles	p. 120
Yesterday, Snow	p. 121
Reading Something in the Restaurant	p. 122
A Poem Not Against Songbirds	p. 123
Late Afternoon, April 8, 1984	p. 124
My Work	p. 126
The Trestle	p. 128
For Tess	p. 130
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