carversite: raymond carver bibliography

fires: essays, poems, stories

essays

01   my father’s life

02   on writing

03   fires

04   john gardner: the writer as teacher

poems

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

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

stories

01   distance

02   the lie

03   the cabin

04   harry's death

05   the pheasant

06   where is everyone?

07   so much water so close to home

The contents refer to the second, expanded edition (first edition Capra Press, 1983). "The Cabin" appears as "Pastoral" in Furious Seasons.