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Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver
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Raymond Carver

Born: 25 May 1938 • Died: 2 August 1988

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)

Poems by Raymond Carver

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For Tess by Raymond Carver

December 1, 2025
“I opened my eyes then and got right up / and went back to being happy again. / I'm grateful to you, you see. I wanted to tell you.” — Raymond Carver
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My Crow by Raymond Carver

December 31, 2023
“I opened my eyes then and got right up / and went back to being happy again. / I'm grateful to you, you see. I wanted to tell you.” — Raymond Carver
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At Least by Raymond Carver

October 2, 2023
“I opened my eyes then and got right up / and went back to being happy again. / I'm grateful to you, you see. I wanted to tell you.” — Raymond Carver
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Happiness by Raymond Carver

December 25, 2020
“I opened my eyes then and got right up / and went back to being happy again. / I'm grateful to you, you see. I wanted to tell you.” — Raymond Carver
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Late Fragment by Raymond Carver

June 14, 2013
“I opened my eyes then and got right up / and went back to being happy again. / I'm grateful to you, you see. I wanted to tell you.” — Raymond Carver
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This Morning by Raymond Carver

March 23, 2013
“I opened my eyes then and got right up / and went back to being happy again. / I'm grateful to you, you see. I wanted to tell you.” — Raymond Carver
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Rain by Raymond Carver

December 13, 2012
“I opened my eyes then and got right up / and went back to being happy again. / I'm grateful to you, you see. I wanted to tell you.” — Raymond Carver
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Locking Yourself Out, Then Trying to Get Back In by Raymond Carver

September 26, 2011
“I opened my eyes then and got right up / and went back to being happy again. / I'm grateful to you, you see. I wanted to tell you.” — Raymond Carver
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Simple by Raymond Carver

April 25, 2011
"If I were dead, / I remind myself, I wouldn't / be eating them." — Raymond Carver
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Still Looking Out for Number One by Raymond Carver

June 2, 2008
“I won’t sleep in our bed without you. / No. It doesn’t please me to do so.” — Raymond Carver