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A New Path to the Waterfall

Ray Carver

Poetry was as important to Raymond Carver as his short stories and this collection sounds a key-note of enjoyment in the present rather than regret for the past. In the introduction, his widow gives a moving account of his last days, his love of Chekhov and the poems of Czeslaw Milosz.

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This book contained the final poem of Raymond Carver's life, which was inscribed on his tombstone, focusing on wanting to feel beloved on earth.

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The writer Raymond Carver, the last poem in his last book when he was dying at age 50, which was inscribed on his tombstone. And did you get what you wanted from this life even so? I did. And what did...

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This book contained the final poem of Raymond Carver's life, which was inscribed on his tombstone, focusing on wanting to feel beloved on earth.

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The writer Raymond Carver, the last poem in his last book when he was dying at age 50, which was inscribed on his tombstone. And did you get what you wanted from this life even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved. To feel myself beloved on the earth.

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