Raymond Carver: The American short story writer and poet Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, on May 25, 1938, and lived in Port Angeles, Washington during his last ten, sober years until his death from cancer on August 2, 1988. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1979 and was twice awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1983 Carver received the prestigious Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award which gave him $35,000 per year tax free and required that he give up any employment other than writing, and in 1985 Poetry magazine's Levinson Prize. In 1988 he was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Hartford. He received a Brandeis Citation for fiction in 1988. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages.

Poetry Books:

• Near Klamath. Sacramento: English Club of Sacramento State College, 1968.
• Winter Insomnia. Santa Cruz: Kayak, 1970.
• At Night the Salmon Move. Santa Barbara: Capra, 1976.
• Two Poems ["The Baker" and "Louise"]. Salisbury, MD: Scarab, 1982.
• Where Water Comes Together with Other Water. New York: Random House, 1985.
• Ultramarine. New York: Random House, 1986.
• Two Poems ["Reaching" and "Soda Crackers"]. Concord, NH: Ewert, 1986.
• In a Marine Light: Selected Poems. London: Collins Harvill, 1987.
• A New Path to the Waterfall. New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1989.

"The Window" used by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. from A New Path to the Waterfall.

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