Best known as one of the great short story writers of the twentieth century, Raymond Carver also published several volumes of poetry and considered himself as much a poet as a fiction writer. Sandra Lee Kleppe combines comparative analysis with an in-depth examination of Carver s poems, making a case for the quality of Carver s poetic output and showing the central role Carver s pursuit of poetry played in his career as a writer. Carver constructed his own organic literary system of 'autopoetics, ' a concept connected to a paradigm shift in our understanding of the inter-relatedness of...
Best known as one of the great short story writers of the twentieth century, Raymond Carver also published several volumes of poetry and considered hi...
