Raymond carver poems
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Raymond Carver
American story writer and poet (1938–1988)
Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. He published his first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, in 1976. His breakout collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), received immediate acclaim and established Carver as an important figure in the literary world.[1] It was followed by Cathedral (1983), which Carver considered his watershed and is widely regarded as his masterpiece.[2] The definitive collection of his stories, Where I'm Calling From, was published shortly before his death in 1988. In their 1989 nomination of Carver for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the jury concluded, "The revival in recent years of the short story is attributable in great measure to Carver's mastery of the form."[3]
Early life
Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, a mill town on the Columbia River, and grew up in Yakima, Washington, the son of Ella Beatrice Carter (née Casey) and Clevi
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Raymond Carver Biography
American short story writer and poet Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938 and died in Port Angeles, Washington, in 1988. Very few writers have been more influential on future generations of American and international authors. Carver played a major role in reviving the American short story form in the 1980s, and he has been referred to as one of the “greatest modern short story writers” and as “the American Chekhov”. Although he is often associated with Minimalism, Carver himself disliked the label, thinking it misrepresented the nature of his work. His later stories and the recently published Beginners, which features the original versions of the severely edited stories that appeared in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, demonstrate the true expansiveness and heart of his style. Though he may be best known for his eight books of short fiction, he also wrote essays, plays, a screenplay, reviews, introductions, and seven books of poetry. Ten films have been adapted from his stories, including Jindabyne, directed by
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Raymond Carver
Born
in Clatskanie, Oregon, The United StatesMay 25, 1938
Died
August 02, 1988
Genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry
Influences
Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway, Antonio Machado, James Salter, Isaac Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway, Antonio Machado, James Salter, Isaac Babel, William Carlos Williams, Flannery O'Connor...more
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Carver was born into a poverty-stricken family at the tail-end of the Depression. He married at 19, started a series of menial jobs and his own career of 'full-time drinking as a serious pursuit', a career that would eventually kill him. Constantly struggling to support his wife and family, Carver enrolled in a writing programme under author John Gardner in 1958. He saw this opportunity as a turning point.
Rejecting the more experimental fiction of the 60s and 70s, he pioneered a precisionist realism reinventing the American short story during the eighties, heading the line of so-called 'dirty realists' or 'K-mart realists'. Set in trailer parks and shopping malls, they are stories of
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