Raymond Carver who became a master-storyteller of his generation & was hailed in Europe as 'the American Chekhov' wrote of himself "I began as a poet My first publication was a poem So I suppose on my tombstone I'd be very pleased if they put ' Poet & short-story writer
- & occasional essayist' in that order" This complete edition allows readers to experience the range & overwhelming power of Carver's poetry for the first time It brings together in the order of their American publication the poems of Fires (1985) Where Water Comes Together with Other Water (1986) Ultramarine (1988) A New Path to the Waterfall (1989) & No Heroics Please (1991) For readers who know Carver's middle period only through his selected poems In a Marine Light (1988) it
Includes:: the windfall of 51 poems not previously published in Britain All of Us is edited by Professor William L Stull of the University of Hartford & introduced with an essay on Raymond Carver's methods of composition by his widow the poet Tess Gallagher