{"product_id":"where-water-comes-together-with-other-water-9780394743271","title":"Where Water Comes Together with Other Water","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine's Levinson Prize - An illuminating collection of poems from the middle of Carver's career that \"function as distilled, heightened versions of his stories, offering us fugitive glimpses of ordinary lives on the edge\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The stories poems tell are so wonderfully self-contained, so self-evident, so gracefully metaphorical.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"There is a severity of language, an understatement of emotion, that endows the poems of his first major collection with the feel of extraordinary experience. To read them is to have the sense this man has lived more than most of us. We trust him because of the plainly conversational diction and the lapel-grabbing rhythms.... They are very moving, very memorable.\" \u003ci\u003e--Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRAYMOND CARVER was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first collection of stories, \u003ci\u003eWill You Please Be Quiet, Please\u003c\/i\u003e (a National Book Award nominee in 1977), was followed by \u003ci\u003eWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral\u003c\/i\u003e (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1984), and \u003ci\u003eWhere I'm Calling From\u003c\/i\u003e in 1988, when he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died August 2, 1988, shortly after completing the poems of \u003ci\u003eA New Path to the Waterfall.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50674828771602,"sku":"9780394743271","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7fa0d9f8-54de-48b0-a058-ca92d90e70da.jpg?v=1733866301","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/where-water-comes-together-with-other-water-9780394743271","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}