Rain by Raymond Carver

Poet and short-story writer Raymond Carver was born in the logging town of Clatskanie, Oregon. He published his first short-story and poem while at Humboldt State. His first wife, Maryann Burk, also held a series of jobs to support Carver as he began writing and eventually publishing acclaimed short-story collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976), What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), and Cathedral (1983). Carver also published poetry… (more)

Poet and short-story writer Raymond Carver was born in the logging town of Clatskanie, Oregon. He published his first short-story and poem while at Humboldt State. His first wife, Maryann Burk, also held a series of jobs to support Carver as he began writing and eventually publishing acclaimed short-story collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976), What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), and Cathedral (1983). Carver also published poetry collections, including A New Path to the Waterfall (1989), which was published posthumously. Raymond Carver died of lung cancer in his home on the Olympic Peninsula in 1988. (Source)

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