All of Us

By Raymond Carver,

Book cover of All of Us: The Collected Poems

Book description

A rich collection of poems from not only “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), but one of America’s most large-hearted and affecting poets.

Like Raymond Carver’s stories, the more than 300 poems in All of Us are marked by a keen attention to…

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1 author picked All of Us as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Ah, Carver…where do I begin? This collection is packed with gems that, as Dylan sang, glow like burning coal. Carver’s poems make me want to drink too much, lament, get sober, and love so hard that my heart cracks open. These poems make me want to live a damn full life. Most of all, Carver makes me want to blow the shavings off my pencil and write.

This collection is a conversation with poetry and art itself; Carver invokes the pantheon from Balzac to Hemingway to Renoir. I want to join that conversation and write for dear life.

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