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Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988.

Where water comes together with other water : poems / by Raymond Carver.

1st ed.

New York : Random House, ©1985.

xii, 130 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Raymond Carver, acclaimed as "one of the true contemporary masters" of the short story, demonstrates, in this first major collection of his poems, his talents in this form. Drawing poetic effects from the commonplace, Carver's poems bring us back to the "real world" more forcibly than his stories because we generally expect poetry to transport us to realms beyond the ordinary. While his diction is prose-like, some of his poems are marked by painful intensity and others by graceful and exuberant language. As Jonathan Yardley puts it, his "eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart." ISBN 0-394-54470-6 : $13.95.

American poetry.

Poetry.

Woolworth's 1954 -- Radio waves -- Movement -- Hominy and rain -- Road -- Fear -- Romanticism -- Ashtray -- Still looking out for number one -- Where water comes together with other water -- Happiness -- Old days -- Our first house in Sacramento -- Next year -- To my daughter -- Anathema -- Energy -- Locking yourself out, then trying to get back in -- Medicine -- Wenas Ridge -- Reading -- Rain -- Money -- Aspens -- At least -- Grant -- My boat -- Poem I didn't write -- Work -- In the year 2020 -- Juggler at heaven's gate -- My daughter and apple pie -- Commerce -- Fishing pole of the drowned man -- Walk -- My dad's wallet -- Ask him -- Next door -- Caucasus: a romance -- Forge, and a scythe -- Pipe -- Listening -- In Switzerland -- Squall -- My crow -- Party -- After rainy days -- Interview -- Blood -- Tomorrow -- Grief -- Harley's swans -- Elk camp -- Windows of the summer vacation houses -- Memory -- Away -- Music -- Plus -- All her life -- Hat -- Late night with fog and horses -- Venice -- Eve of battle -- Extirpation -- Catch -- My death -- To begin with -- Cranes -- Haircut -- Happiness in Cornwall -- Afghanistan -- In a marine light near Sequim, Washington -- Eagles -- Yesterday, snow -- Reading something in the restaurant -- Poem not against songbirds -- Late afternoon, April 8, 1984 -- My work -- Trestle -- For Tess.

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