carversite: raymond carver bibliography

all of us: the collected poems

   
 

FIRES (1983)

one

01   drinking while driving

02   luck

03   distress sale

04   your dog dies

05   photograph of my father in his twenty-second year

06   hamid ramouz (1818-1906)

07   bankruptcy

08   the baker

09   iowa summer

10   alcohol

11   for semra, with martial vigor

12   looking for work  1

13   cheers

14   rogue river jet-boat trip, gold beach, oregon, july 4, 1977

two

15    you don't know what love is

three

16   morning, thinking of empire

17   the blue stones

18   tel aviv and life on the mississippi

19   the news carried to macedonia

20   the mosque in jaffa

21   not far from here

22   sudden rain

23   balzac

24   country matters

25   this room

26   rhodes

27   spring, 480 bc

four

28   near klamath

29   autumn

30   winter insomnia

31   prosser

32   at night the salmon move

33   with a telescope rod on cowiche creek

34   poem for dr pratt, a lady pathologist

35   wes hardin: from a photograph

36   marriage

37   the other life

38   the mailman as cancer patient

39   poem for hemingway & wc williams

40   torture

41   bobber

42   highway 99e from chico

43   the cougar

44   the current

45   hunter

46   trying to sleep late on a saturday morning in november

47   louise

48   poem for karl wallenda, aerialist supreme

49   deschutes river

50   forever

 

WHERE WATER COME TOGETHER WITH OTHER WATER (1985)

one

51   woolworth’s, 1954

52   radio waves

53   movement

54   hominy and rain

55   the road

56   fear

57   romanticism

58   the ashtray

59   still looking out for number one

60   where water comes together with other water

two

61   happiness

62   the old days

63   our first house in sacramento

64   next year

65   to my daughter

66   anathema

67   energy

68   locking yourself out, then trying to get back in

69   medicine

70   wenas ridge

71   reading

72   rain

73   money

74   aspens

three

75   at least

76   the grant

77   my boat

78   the poem i didn't write

79   work

80   in the year 2020

81   the juggler at heaven’s gate

82   my daughter and apple pie

83   commerce

84   the fishing pole of the drowned man

85   a walk

86   my dad’s wallet

four

87   ask him

88   next door

89   the caucasus: a romance

90   a forge, and a scythe

91   the pipe

92   listening

93   in switzerland

five

94   a squall

95   my crow

96   the party

97   after rainy days

98   interview

99   blood

100  tomorrow

101  grief

102  harley’s swans

six

103  elk camp

104  the windows of the summer vacation houses

105  memory  1

106  away

107  music

108  plus

109  all her life

110  the hat

111  late night with fog and horses

112  venice

113  the eve of battle

114  extirpation

115  the catch

116  my death

117  to begin with

118  the cranes

seven

119  a haircut

120  happiness in cornwall

121  afghanistan

122  in a marine light near sequim, washington

123  eagles

124  yesterday, snow

125  reading something in the restaurant

126  a poem not against songbirds

127  late afternoon, april 8, 1984

128  my work

129  the trestle

130  for tess

 

ULTRAMARINE (1986)

one

131  this morning

132  what you need for painting

133  an afternoon

134  circulation

135  the cobweb

136  balsa wood

137  the projectile

138  the mail

139  the autopsy room

140  where they’d lived

141  memory  2

142  the car

143  stupid

144  union street: san francisco, summer 1975

145  bonnard’s nudes

146  jean’s tv

147  mesopotamia

148  the jungle

149  hope

150  the house behind this one

151  limits

152  the sensitive girl

two

153  the minuet

154  egress

155  spell

156  from the east, light

157  a tall order

158  the author of her misfortune

159  powder-monkey

160  earwigs

161  nyquil

162  the possible

163  shiftless

164  the young fire eaters of mexico city

165  where the groceries went

166  what i can do

167  the little room

168  sweet light

169  the garden

170  son

171  kafka’s watch

three

172  the lightning speed of the past

173  vigil

174  in the lobby of the hotel del mayo

175  bahia, brazil

176  the phenomenon

177  wind

178  migration

179  sleeping

180  the river

181  the best time of the day

182  scale

183  company

184  yesterday

185  the schooldesk

186  cutlery

187  the pen

188  the prize

189  an account

190  the meadow

191  loafing

192  sinew

193  waiting

four

195  the debate

196  its course

197  september

198  the white field

199  shooting

200  the window

201  heels

202  the phone booth

203  cadillacs and poetry

204  simple

205  the scratch

206  mother

207  the child

208  the fields

209  after reading two towns in provence

210  evening

211  the rest

212  slippers

213  asia

214  the gift

 

A NEW PATH TO THE WATERFALL (1989)

one

215  wet picture  jaroslav seifert

216  thermopylae

217  two worlds

218  smoke and deception  anton chekhov

219  in a greek orthodox church near daphne

220  for the record

221  transformation

222  threat

223  conspirators

224  this word love

225  don’t run  anton chekhov

226  woman bathing

two

227  the name  tomas transtromer

228  looking for work  2

229  the world book salesman

230  the toes

231  the moon, the train

232  two carriages  anton chekhov

233  miracle

234  my wife

235  wine

236  after the fire  anton chekhov

three

237  from a journal of southern rivers  charles wright

238  the kitchen

239  songs in the distance  anton chekhov

240  suspenders

241  what you need to know for fishing  stephen oliver

242  oyntment to alure fish to the bait  james chetham

243  the surgeon

244  night dampness  anton chekhov

245  another mystery

four

246  return to krakow in 1880  czeslaw milosz

247  sunday night

248  the painter & the fish

249  at noon  anton chekhov

250  artaud

251  caution

252  one more

253  at the bird market  anton chekhov

254  his bathrobe pockets stuffed with notes

255  the march into russia

256  some prose on poetry

257  poems

258  letter

259  the young girls

five

260  from epilogue  robert lowell

261  the offending eel

262  sorrel  anton chekhov

263  the attic

264  margo

265  on an old photograph of my son

266  five o’clock in the morning  anton chekhov

267  summer fog

268  hummingbird

269  out

270  downstream  anton chekhov

271  the net

272  nearly

six

273  foreboding  anton chekhov

274  quiet nights

275  sparrow nights  anton chekhov

276  lemonade

277  such diamonds  anton chekhov

278  wake up

279  what the doctor said

280  let’s roar, your honor  anton chekhov

281  proposal

282  cherish

283  gravy

284  no need

285  through the boughs

286  after-glow

287  late fragment

 

UNCOLLECTED POEMS: NO HEROICS, PLEASE (1991)

288  the brass ring

289  beginnings

290  in the trenches with robert graves

291  the man outside

292  adultery

293  for the egyptian coin today, arden, thank you

294  seeds

295  betrayal

296  the contact

297  something is happening

298  a summer in sacramento

299  reaching

300  soda crackers

301  those days

302  on the pampas tonight

303  poem on my birthday, july 2

304  return

305  the sunbather, to herself

306  no heroics, please