All Of Us: The Collected Poems

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Simpson, Mona; Buzbee, Lewis (Summer 1983). "Raymond Carver, The Art of Fiction No. 76". Paris Review. Summer 1983 (88). Tess Gallagher published five Carver stories posthumously in Call If You Need Me; one of the stories ("Kindling") won an O. Henry Award in 1999. In his lifetime Carver won five O. Henry Awards; these winning stories were “Are These Actual Miles” (originally titled “What is it?”) (1972), “Put Yourself in My Shoes” (1974), “Are You A Doctor?” (1975), “A Small, Good Thing” (1983), and “Errand” (1988). Author of foreword) Raymond Carver, Call if You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose, edited by William L. Stull, Vintage Contemporaries (New York, NY), 2001.

Ray said: the great thing about living longer is that you get to know more of the story," Gallagher smiles as we start to think about leaving. "And I have gotten to know a lot more of the story that he and I were living. Some threads have dropped out of that story, but a whole new story began that still has all this interweaving with my life with Ray."★ you call it a poem for your daughter, about the dog getting run over by a van and how you looked after it, took it out into the woods and buried it deep, deep, and that poem turns out so good you're almost glad the little dog was run over, or else you'd never have written that good poem. My wife finally took her eyes off the blind man and looked at me. I had the feeling she didn't like what she saw. I shrugged. I remembered having read somewhere that the blind didn't smoke because, as speculation had it, they couldn't see the smoke they exhaled. I thought I knew that much and that much only about blind people. But this blind man smoked his cigarette down to the nubbin and then lit another one. This blind man filled his ashtray and my wife emptied it.Smith, Dell. "Dell Smith's experiences adapting Carver's story "Why Don't You Dance" into a student film in mid-'80s". Beyond the Margins. I said, "Let me get you a drink. What's your pleasure? We have a little of everything. It's one of our pastimes."

The book's publication went ahead, in Lish's form and under Lish's title – What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. It was received, in April 1981, to spectacular acclaim. It made Carver's name and remains his most famous book. Carver began drinking heavily in 1967 and was repeatedly hospitalized for alcoholism in the 1970s, while continuing to turn out short stories. After conquering his drinking problem in the late 1970s, he taught for several years at the University of Texas at El Paso and at Syracuse University, and in 1983 he won a literary award whose generous annual stipend freed him to again concentrate on his writing full-time. His later short-story collections were What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), Cathedral (1984), and Where I’m Calling From (1988). While his short stories were what made his critical reputation, he was also an accomplished poet in the realist tradition of Robert Frost. Carver’s poetry collections include At Night the Salmon Move (1976), Where Water Comes Together with Other Water (1985), and Ultramarine (1986). He died of lung cancer at age 50. My wife covered her mouth, and then she yawned. She stretched. She said, "I think I'll go upstairs and put on my robe. I think I'll change into something else. Robert, you make yourself comfortable," she said.

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The blind man let go of his suitcase and up came his hand. I took it. He squeezed hard, held my hand, and then he let it go.