Where Water Comes Together with Other Water

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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

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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

"Somehow the nuances of daily experience, the warmth, humor, and reflection the poet brings to subjects are quite unlike anyone's."--J.Parisi

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Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Best-known for his wonderful short stories (What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, etc.), Carver works the same narrative magic in these poems. In everyday language he offers memories of his family and past loves, uses fishing and hunting events to portray his innermost thoughts about life and death. PW called these poems ``accessible and lovely.'' (April)
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"Over the years, Raymond Carver has been writing poetry alongside his fiction — same of his earlier verse appeared in a recent anthology titled Fires — and the most vigorous poems in this new collection function as distilled, heightened versions of his stories, offering us fugitive glimpses of ordinary lives on the edge." — Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"Carver's voice is direct, his themes universal."

— The Seattle Past-Intelligencer

"The emotional impact of his scenes and slices of life is imparted without strain; the voice speaks: with such an uncanny directness and ease — and remarkable intimacy — that the reader may wander at poem's end how such simplicity can carry such power...Somehow the nuances of daily experience, the warmth, humor, and reflection the poet brings to his subject are quite unlike anyone else's, bath in his immediacy and in the ability to make us identify and be moved. A splendid book."

— Joseph Parisi, Booklist

"The stories poems tell are so wonderfully self-contained, so self-evident, so gracefully metaphorical." — The Village Voice

"There is a severity of language, an understatement of emotion, that endows the poem of his first major collection with the feel of extraordinary experience. To read them is to have the sense this man has l lived more than most of us. We trust him because of the plainly conversational diction and the lapel-grabbing rhythms....They are very moving, very memorable."

— Dave Smith, Poetry

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780394544700
  • Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 3/12/1985
  • Pages: 130

Table of Contents

1
Woolworth's, 1954 3
Radio Waves 6
Movement 8
Hominy and Rain 9
The Road 11
Fear 12
Romanticism 13
The Ashtray 14
Still Looking Out for Number One 16
Where Water Comes Together With Other Water 17
2
Happiness 21
The Old Days 22
Our First House in Sacramento 24
Next Year 25
To My Daughter 27
Anathema 29
Energy 31
Locking Yourself Out, Then Trying to Get Back In 32
Medicine 34
Wenas Ridge 35
Reading 37
Rain 38
Money 39
Aspens 40
3
At Least 43
The Grant 44
My Boat 45
The Poem I Didn't Write 47
Work 48
In the Year 2020 49
The Juggler at Heaven's Gate 50
My Daughter and Apple Pie 51
Commerce 52
The Fishing Pole of the Drowned Man 53
A Walk 54
My Dad's Wallet 55
4
Ask Him 59
Next Door 62
The Caucasus: A Romance 63
A Forge, and a Scythe 66
The Pipe 67
Listening 68
In Switzerland 69
5
A Squall 75
My Crow 76
The Party 77
After Rainy Days 78
Interview 79
Blood 80
Tomorrow 81
Grief 82
Harley's Swans 83
6
Elk Camp 87
The Windows of the Summer Vacation Houses 89
Memory 92
Away 93
Music 94
Plus 95
All Her Life 96
The Hat 97
Late Night With Fog and Horses 100
Venice 102
The Eve of Battle 103
Extirpation 104
The Catch 105
My Death 106
To Begin With 108
The Cranes 111
7
A Haircut 115
Happiness in Cornwall 117
Afghanistan 118
In a Marine Light Near Sequim, Washington 119
Eagles 120
Yesterday, Snow 121
Reading Something in the Restaurant 122
A Poem Not Against Songbirds 123
Late Afternoon, April 8, 1984 124
My Work 126
The Trestle 128
For Tess 130
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