carversite: Raymond Carver Misc.

Raymond Carver was a short story writer and poet. His voice, distilled and perfectly measured, lures us beneath the surface of common life.

Read some of his work, or read about his life. Have a look at the photographs or the video, or link to an audio interview. Browse the quotations or bibliography (it features tables of contents).







Raymond Carver quotes:

It's been a continual series of starting-overs for me.



...the best art has its reference points in real life.


I'm not a "born" poet. I don't know if I'm a "born" anything...


That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones, with the punctuation in the right places...

Anyone can express himself, or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate, yes?



The first and second quotations are from "Raymond Carver Speaking", by Robert Pope and Lisa McElhinny. Conducted spring 1982. The third is from "Raymond Carver", by Mona Simpson and Lewis Buzbee. Conducted winter 1983. Conversations With Raymond Carver, edited by Marshall Bruce Gentry and William L Stull, University Press Of Mississippi, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by the University Press Of Mississippi.

The fourth Raymond Carver quotation is from "On Writing". The fifth is from "On 'For Tess'". Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction And Prose, The Harvill Press, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Tess Gallagher.

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"beginners," edited Compares draft of "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" with final version


back to the source Essay on Carver's relationship with nature


beginners Draft, without Gordon Lish's edits, of "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love"


beginners book description and sample comparisons By William L Stull and Maureen P Carroll


being raymond carver Slide show that includes images of edits by Gordon Lish to manuscript of "Beginners" ("What We Talk About When We Talk About Love")


carver Another Carver site


featured author News and reviews from The New York Times archives. They want you to sign up first, but it's free and easy. Includes "The Real Carver: Expansive Or Minimal?" and "The Carver Chronicles"


imdb The Internet Movie Database's Raymond Carver



letters to an editor Raymond Carver and Gordon Lish correspondence


prose as architecture Two interviews with Raymond Carver



rough crossings Article on Gordon Lish's edits of Raymond Carver



vitamins Granta has put up the full text



wikipedia Carverpedia










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