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All of Us: The Collected Poems
by Raymond Carver

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I had a professor in college who told me to read Carver's poetry to understand "voice." Carver's voice was so very much his own that it couldn't belong to anyone else. That sounds ridiculous, but I think what he meant was that once you've read Carver, you'd recognize his work anywhere. His poems spring from a well of all the difficult human emotions — sadness, fear, anger, confusion, regret (lots of regret) — but his plain-spoken narrative voice lends the poems a poignant vulnerability. He is at his best recalling the past and encountering nature, two areas in which he seems determined to find meaning. This collection is undoubtedly one of the great works in the canon of 20th-century American literature.
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Publisher Comments:

This prodigiously rich collection suggests that Raymond Carver was not only America's finest writer of short fiction, but also one of its most large-hearted and affecting poets. Like Carver's stories, the more than 300 poems in All of Us are marked by a keen attention to the physical world; an uncanny ability to compress vast feeling into discreet moments; a voice of conversational intimacy, and an unstinting sympathy.

This complete edition brings together all the poems of Carver's five previous books, from Fires to the posthumously published No Heroics, Please. It also contains bibliographical and textual notes on individual poems; a chronology of Carver's life and work; and a moving introduction by Carver's widow, the poet Tess Gallagher.

Review:

"The best poems play like short stories in miniature, small heartrending scenes that resonate with telling detail...the lyrical reflections in his poems are as much a part of his formidable legacy as his incomparable stories." The Philadelphia Inquirer

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"Carver's poetry is like an almost invisible strand of fishing line reeling us all together, connecting us by the heart." San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle
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About the Author

Raymond Carver died in 1988.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780375703805
Subtitle:
The Collected Poems
Author:
Carver, Raymond
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Location:
New York
Subject:
American
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
American poetry
Subject:
Poetry
Edition Description:
1st Vintage contemporaries ed.
Publication Date:
April 2000
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
416
Dimensions:
7.98x5.18x.89 in. .66 lbs.
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