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Raymond Carver finished A New Path To The Waterfall shortly before his death in August 1988. These fifty poems--as hard and clear and emotionally pure as his short stories--chart a human journey: false starts and redemptions, the discovery of happiness, memory, and leave-taking, and the full... read more

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Back at the hotel, watching her loosen, then comb out her russet hair in front of the window, she deep in private thought, her eyes somewhere else, I am reminded for some reason of those Lacedaemonians Herodotus wrote about, whose duty it was to hold the Gates against the Persian army.

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  1. Raymond Carver (Author)
 

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