Raymond carver collection6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() His poetry collections include Where Water Comes Together with Other Water (1985) and Ultramarine (1987). He's the author of many collections of stories, including What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), Cathedral (1983), and Where I'm Calling From (1988). He was in and out of detox programs before he finally quit drinking, through AA, in 1982. It was the same year he began drinking heavily, torn between the demands of writing and family. He had some success as a writer in the late 60s: his story "Will you Please Be Quiet, Please?" was selected for the Best American Short Stories anthology in 1967. Within a year of leaving high school, he married and had children. It's the birthday of poet and short story writer Raymond Carver, born in Clatskanie, Oregon (1938), the child of a sawmill worker and a waitress. She's the author of short stories, the novels Annie John (1985) and Lucy (1990), and most recently a collection entitled Talk Stories (2001). When she was 16 years old, she left home for New York and became a writer for The New Yorker magazine. John's, Antigua, in the West Indies (1949). It's the birthday of novelist Jamaica Kincaid, born in St. On this day in 1994, Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, after 20 years abroad, returned to Russia. Poem: "Waiting," by Raymond Carver, from All of Us: The Collected Poems (Alfred A. ![]()
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