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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 apprehension of mortality. An avowal of love, this collection is also a haunting record of Carver's approach to death.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Raymond Carver

In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women.

All of Us: The Collected Poems (Vintage Contemporaries)

All of Us: The Collected Poems (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Raymond Carver

"Carver's poetry is like an almost invisible strand of fishing line reeling us all together, connecting us by the heart." -- San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle This prodigiously rich collection suggests that Raymond Carver was not only America's finest writer of short fiction, but also one of its most large-hearted and affecting poets. Like Carver's stories, the more than 300 poems in All of Us are... (more)

Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems (Vintage)

Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems (Vintage)

by Raymond Carver

A vast collection of poems which won "Poetry" magazine's Levinson prize."Somehow the nuances of daily experience, the warmth, humor, and reflection the poet brings to subjects are quite unlike anyone else's." - J.Parisi

Dear Ghosts,: Poems

by Tess Gallagher

The long-awaited and resplendent new poetry collection by Tess Gallagher, whose poems "are a gift of a poet's heart and soul to her readers" (Robert Coles) Don’t sharpen them. Expectation, more dangerous than any blade. —“Knives in the Borrowed House” Fourteen years after Moon Crossing Bridge —Tess Gallagher’s powerful elegies for her husband, Raymond Carver— Dear Ghosts , is the return of Gallagher’s... (more)

Ultramarine: Poems (Vintage Contemporaries)

Ultramarine: Poems (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Raymond Carver

"Mr. Carver is heir to that most appealing American poetic voice, the lyricism of Theodore Roethke and James Wright.... this book is a treasure, one to return to. No one's brevity is as rich, as complete, as Raymond Carver's." -- New York Times Book Review "Carver's gifts as a storyteller shine through his poetry.... Sometimes a Carver poem also works as a short story, with all its elements--character, diction,... (more)

Joanna Brady: Book 10

Partner in Crime

by J. A. Jance

The dead woman on a cold slab in the Arizona morgue was a talented artist recently arrived from the West Coast. The Washington State Attorney General's office thinks this investigation is too big for a small-town female law officer to handle, so they're sending Sheriff Joanna Brady some unwanted help -- a seasoned detective named Beaumont. Sheriff Brady resents his intrusion, and Bisbee, Arizona, with its ghosts... (more)

J.P. Beaumont: Book 10

Without Due Process

by J. A. Jance

Officer Benjamin Harrison Weston was a model cop -- until a maniac broke into his home and brutally murdered him, his wife and his children, but somehow missed his five-year old son who was hiding in a closet. Now the top brass is suggesting that Gentle Ben was dirty. But Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont isn't about to let anybody drag his dead friend's reputation through the mud. And he's ready to trail a killer... (more)

Day of the Dead

by J. A. Jance

A shocking and electrifying thriller from this New York Times bestselling author. For more than thirty years the case has remained stone cold -- the brutal murder of a local Papago girl, her butchered body found stuffed into a large cooler left on the side of Highway 86. No one ever paid for the horrific crime...except, that is, for the victim's loved ones who suffer to this day. Brandon Walker, once the Sheriff... (more)

Moon Crossing Bridge

by Tess Gallagher

Tess Gallagher, one of America's most accomplished poets, presents her sixth book, a descent into the world of the dead, a remembrance of her recently deceased beloved, whose presence and absence are recalled in sombre lyrical rhythms and with a extraordinary range of expressions of love and sadness. Devoid of self-pity or illusion, yet full of dream and vision and wisdom, these beautifully intense and powerful... (more)

Instructions to the DoubleTess GALLAGHER

Instructions to the Double

by Tess GALLAGHER

Under StarsTess Gallagher

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A New Path to the Waterfall

by Raymond Carver

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Raymond Carver

All of Us: The Collected Poems (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Raymond Carver

Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems (Vintage)

by Raymond Carver

Dear Ghosts,: Poems

by Tess Gallagher

Ultramarine: Poems (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Raymond Carver

Partner in Crime

by J. A. Jance

Without Due Process

by J. A. Jance

Day of the Dead

by J. A. Jance

Moon Crossing Bridge

by Tess Gallagher

Instructions to the Double

by Tess GALLAGHER

Under Stars

by Tess Gallagher