All of Us · the Collected Poems (Vintage Contemporaries) by Carver, Raymond -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Note to Reader of the eBook Edition Epigraph Dedication Contents Editor’s Preface Introduction Fires (1983)

Drinking While Driving Luck Distress Sale Your Dog Dies Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year Hamid Ramouz (1818–1906) Bankruptcy The Baker Iowa Summer Alcohol For Semra, with Martial Vigor Looking for Work [1] Cheers Rogue River Jet-Boat Trip, Gold Beach, Oregon, July 4, 1977

You Don’t Know What Love Is

III

Morning, Thinking of Empire The Blue Stones Tel Aviv and Life on the Mississippi The News Carried to Macedonia The Mosque in Jaffa Not Far from Here Sudden Rain Balzac Country Matters This Room Rhodes Spring, 480 BC

Near Klamath Autumn Winter Insomnia Prosser At Night the Salmon Move With a Telescope Rod on Cowiche Creek Poem for Dr Pratt, a Lady Pathologist Wes Hardin: From a Photograph Marriage The Other Life The Mailman as Cancer Patient Poem for Hemingway & W.C. Williams Torture Bobber Highway 99E from Chico The Cougar The Current Hunter Trying to Sleep Late on a Saturday Morning in November Louise Poem for Karl Wallenda, Aerialist Supreme Deschutes River Forever

Where Water Comes Together with Other Water (1985)

Woolworth’s, 1954 Radio Waves Movement Hominy and Rain The Road Fear Romanticism The Ashtray Still Looking Out for Number One Where Water Comes Together with Other Water

Happiness The 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

III

At Least The Grant My Boat The Poem I Didn’t Write Work In the Year 2020 The Juggler at Heaven’s Gate My Daughter and Apple Pie Commerce The Fishing Pole of the Drowned Man A Walk My Dad’s Wallet

Ask Him Next Door The Caucasus: A Romance A Forge, and a Scythe The Pipe Listening In Switzerland

A Squall My Crow The Party After Rainy Days Interview Blood Tomorrow Grief Harley’s Swans

Elk Camp The Windows of the Summer Vacation Houses Memory [I] Away Music Plus All Her Life The Hat Late Night with Fog and Horses Venice The Eve of Battle Extirpation The Catch My Death To Begin With The Cranes

VII

A Haircut Happiness in Cornwall Afghanistan In a Marine Light near Sequim, Washington Eagles Yesterday, Snow Reading Something in the Restaurant A Poem Not against Songbirds Late Afternoon, April 8, 1984 My Work The Trestle For Tess

Ultramarine (1986)

This Morning What You Need for Painting An Afternoon Circulation The Cobweb Balsa Wood The Projectile The Mail The Autopsy Room Where They’d Lived Memory [2] The Car Stupid Union Street: San Francisco, Summer 1975 Bonnard’s Nudes Jean’s TV Mesopotamia The Jungle Hope The House behind This One Limits The Sensitive Girl

The Minuet Egress Spell From the East, Light A Tall Order The Author of Her Misfortune Powder-Monkey Earwigs NyQuil The Possible Shiftless The Young Fire Eaters of Mexico City Where the Groceries Went What I Can Do The Little Room Sweet Light The Garden Son Kafka’s Watch

III

The Lightning Speed of the Past Vigil In the Lobby of the Hotel del Mayo Bahia, Brazil The Phenomenon Wind Migration Sleeping The River The Best Time of the Day Scale Company Yesterday The Schooldesk Cutlery The Pen The Prize An Account The Meadow Loafing Sinew Waiting

The Debate Its Course September The White Field Shooting The Window Heels The Phone Booth Cadillacs and Poetry Simple The Scratch Mother The Child The Fields After Reading Two Towns in Provence Evening The Rest Slippers Asia The Gift

A New Path to the Waterfall (1989)

Gift (Czeslaw Milosz) I

Wet Picture (Jaroslav Seifert) Thermopylae Two Worlds Smoke and Deception (Anton Chekhov) In a Greek Orthodox Church near Daphne For the Record Transformation Threat Conspirators This Word Love Don’t Run (Chekhov) Woman Bathing

The Name (Tomas Tranströmer) Looking for Work [2] The World Book Salesman The Toes The Moon, the Train Two Carriages (Chekhov) Miracle My Wife Wine After the Fire (Chekhov)

III

from A Journal of Southern Rivers (Charles Wright) The Kitchen Songs in the Distance (Chekhov) Suspenders What You Need to Know for Fishing (Stephen Oliver) Oyntment to Alure Fish to the Bait (James Chetham) The Sturgeon Night Dampness (Chekhov) Another Mystery

Return to Kraków in 1880 (Czeslaw Milosz) Sunday Night The Painter & the Fish At Noon (Chekhov) Artaud Caution One More At the Bird Market (Chekhov) His Bathrobe Pockets Stuffed with Notes The March into Russia Some Prose on Poetry Poems Letter The Young Girls

from Epilogue (Robert Lowell) The Offending Eel Sorrel (Chekhov) The Attic Margo On an Old Photograph of My Son Five O’Clock in the Morning (Chekhov) Summer Fog Hummingbird Out Downstream (Chekhov) The Net Nearly

Foreboding (Chekhov) Quiet Nights Sparrow Nights (Chekhov) Lemonade Such Diamonds (Chekhov) Wake Up What the Doctor Said Let’s Roar, Your Honor (Chekhov) Proposal Cherish Gravy No Need Through the Boughs Afterglow Late Fragment

Appendixes:

1. Uncollected Poems: No Heroics, Please (1991)

The Brass Ring Beginnings On the Pampas Tonight Those Days The Sunbather, to Herself No Heroics, Please Adultery Poem on My Birthday, July 2 Return For the Egyptian Coin Today, Arden, Thank You In the Trenches with Robert Graves The Man Outside Seeds Betrayal The Contact Something Is Happening A Summer in Sacramento Reaching Soda Crackers

2. Introduction by Tess Gallagher to A New Path to the Waterfall 3. Small Press Sources of Carver’s Major Books 4. A Note on In a Marine Light 5. Bibliographical and Textual Notes

Abbreviations Notes

Fires Where Water Comes Together with Other Water Ultramarine A New Path to the Waterfall Uncollected Poems: No Heroics, Please

6. Chronology 7. Posthumous Publications

Index of Titles Index of First Lines About the Author

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