Authors: Raymond Carver
All of Us (42 page)
| 9 | sweating / I was sweating 1st |
| 32 | Goes on, Yes. 1st |
67
READING SOMETHING IN THE RESTAURANT
| 9 | going / thoughts going AUP |
68
A POEM NOT AGAINST SONGBIRDS
:
1st
in
New Letters
[Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City] 51.2 (Winter 1984—5): 16.
| 11 | friends / sweet darlings 1st |
69
LATE AFTERNOON, APRIL
8, 1984
| 1 | sport-fishing / sports fishing AUP |
70
MY WORK
: in
IAML
129—30.
71
THE TRESTLE
: in
TW
7—8,
IAML
73—4.
Title: “Water” AUP
| 6 | woke / woke up TW , AUP |
| 24 | I wish my own life, and death, could be so simple. |
| | I think it could, if I had any character. |
| | What I want is to perfect my life someway. TW , AUP |
| 25 | on / up on TW , AUP |
| 36 | once stood / stood once TW |
| 43 | and phone calls, its stupid concerns - is unbecoming, TW |
72
FOR TESS
:
1st
as a broadside (Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1984); in
Poetry
[Chicago, Ill.] 145.5 (Feb. 1985): 252,
IAML
81; reprinted in
Literary Cavalcade
[Scholastic Inc., New York, NY] 39.7 (Apr. 1987): 9, accompanied by RC’s essay on the poem (
NHP
120—2).
| 3 | out / out there 1st, Poetry |
First edition: New York, NY: Random House, 1986. Publication date: 7 Nov. 1986.
First paperback edition: New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1987. Publication date: Oct. 1987.
First selected and combined English edition:
In a Marine Light: Selected Poems.
London: Collins Harvill, 1987. Publication date: 1 June 1987.
Dedication:
Tess Gallagher
Epigraph: From “Mt Gabriel” by Derek Mahon,
Antarctica
(Dublin: Gallery Press, 1985) 18.
Copy-text: First edition, first printing, collated and corrected against later editions and printings overseen by RC.
Small-press sources and separate publications:
The Window
(Ewert, 1985),
EFTD
(Ewert, 1986),
The River
(Ewert, 1987),
The Best Time of the Day
(privately printed, 1988),
The Cobweb
(Jungle Garden, 1988),
Sweet Light
(Jungle Garden, 1990).
1
THIS MORNING
:
1st
in
Ploughshares
[Emerson College] 11.4 (1985): 81; in
IAML
35—6. Title listed in AUP table of contents but text omitted from proof.
| 6 | walk - determined / walk. Determined 1st |
| 17—18 | myself to see what I was seeing and |
| | nothing else. I had to tell myself this is what 1st |
| 19 | mattered / matters 1st |
| 28 | For a minute or two, though, I did forget 1st |
| 30—1 | For when I turned back I didn’t |
| | know where I was. Until some birds rose up 1st |
2
WHAT YOU NEED FOR PAINTING
: in
IAML
125.
3
AN AFTERNOON
:
1st
in
Ploughshares
[Emerson College] 11.4 (1985):79.
4
CIRCULATION
: in
EFTD
19—20,
IAML
199—200.
| 1 | pain / pain, EFTD |
| 8 | you were / it was EFTD |
| 28 | stinging / stinging pain EFTD |
| 36 | that you / you EFTD |
| 40 | climbed / got EFTD |
| 54 | far more / more EFTD |
5
THE COBWEB
:
1st
in
Caliban
[Ann Arbor, Mich.] 1 (1986): 102; separately published as a broadside (Fairfax, Calif.: Jungle Garden Press, 1988).
| 1—2 | A few minutes ago, I stepped onto the deck of the house. |
| | From there I could see and hear the water, 1st |
| 11 | Intricate / Intricate too 1st |
6
BALSA WOOD
:
1st
in
Poetry
[Chicago, Ill.] 146.6 (Sept. 1985): 346; in
IAML
21. Reproduction of revised typescript accompanies the essay “Raymond Carver” by William L. Stull in
Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 1984
(Detroit: Gale Research, 1985): 236.
| 8 | deeper / no deeper 1st |
| 16 | mound / mound of stuff 1st |
| 19 | to / and 1st |
7
THE PROJECTILE
:
1st
in
Ohio Review
[Ohio Univ.] 37 (1986): 60—1; in
IAML
16—17.
| 5 | reoccurring / recurring 1st |
| 11 | careening / careering IAML |
| 17 | going to / gonna 1st |
| 19 | Only three / Three 1st |
| 46 | got / get 1st |
| 52 | down the stupid road, then turning the stupid corner 1st |
8
THE MAIL
:
1st
in
TriQuarterly
[Northwestern Univ.] 66 (Spring-Summer 1986): 145; in
EFTD
17,
IAML
156—7.
| 18 | for her a home of her own? 1st, EFTD |
9
THE AUTOPSY ROOM
:
1st
in
Ontario Review
[Princeton, NJ] 24 (Spring-Summer 1986): 45; in
EFTD
18,
IAML
65—6.
| 4 | was / had been 1st, EFTD |
| 5 | or too late. / or late, 1st |
| | or late. EFTD |
| 6 | for, so help me, they left things 1st |
| 12 | running / still running 1st, EFTD |
| 26 | strayed / strayed down EFTD , AUP |
10
WHERE THEY’D LIVED
: in
IAML
69.
11
MEMORY
[2]: see
“Memory” [1]
in
WWCT
.
12
THE CAR
: in
IAML
44—5.
| 11 | [omitted in IAML ] |
| 33 | corroded / the corroded IAML |
| 49 | Car / The car IAML |
13
STUPID
:
1st
in
Poetry
[Chicago, Ill.] 147.3 (Dec. 1985): 129.
| 18 | they’re / how they’re 1st |
14
UNION STREET: SAN FRANCISCO, SUMMER
1975:
1st
in
Ploughshares
[Emerson College] 11.4 (1985): 82—3; in
IAML
60—1.
| 5 | off in / in 1st |
| 14 | company / company, as usual 1st |
| 20 | you / you 1st |
| 22 | how / what 1st |
| 29 | little / little, 1st |
| 29—30 | [no stanza break in 1st ] |
| 33 | you son / son 1st |
| 38 | out from / from 1st |
| 42 | afternoon / afternoon, 1st |
15
BONNARD’S NUDES
:
1st
in
Crazyhorse
[Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock] 27 (Fall 1984): 9; in
IAML
126.
16
JEAN’S TV
: in
IAML
70—1.
“Margo”: A version of this poem is printed between “Jean’s TV” and “Mesopotamia” in AUP but does not appear in the finished book. See
this page
and note.
17
MESOPOTAMIA
:
1st
in
Poetry
[Chicago, Ill.] 147.3 (Dec. 1985): 128; in
IAML
181—2.
| 21 | can see / know 1st |
| 25—8 | they’re going better than ever because they’re up |
| | early and talking about things of consequence |
| | such as death, and Mesopotamia. In any case, 1st |
18
HOPE
:
1st
in
Paris Review
[Flushing, NY] 28.100 (Summer-Fall 1986): 58—9; in
IAML
67—8.
| 17—18 | [no stanza break in 1st ] |
| 30 | blasted / was blasted 1st |
19
THE HOUSE BEHIND THIS ONE
: in
IAML
137.
20
LIMITS
:
1st
in
Northwest Review
[Univ. of Oregon, Eugene] 24.1 (1986): 59—60; in
EFTD
7—8,
IAML
91—2.
| 24—5 | with screen wire, rigged |
| | like a little cell inside. He’d broken 1st, EFTD |
| 28 | the barrel. / a barrel 1st |
| | the barrel EFTD |
| 29 | because he’d had a brainstorm: 1st, EFTD |
| 30 | He’d / he’d 1st, EFTD |
| 32 | damnedest / damndest 1st, EFTD |
21
THE SENSITIVE GIRL
:
1st
in
Poetry
[Chicago, Ill.] 146.6 (Sept. 1985): 344—7.
| 3—4 | on this pane of glass that’s |
| | been around even longer. It doesn’t 1st |
| 13 | alders / sorrels 1st |
| 17 | would’ve / would have 1st |
| 26 | to / who would 1st |
| 28 | fastened / broken 1st |
| 44 | Then closes the gate, and fastens it. 1st |
| 46 | that / there 1st |
22
EGRESS
:
1st
in
Northwest Review
[Univ. of Oregon, Eugene] 24.1 (1986): 57—8; in
EFTD
15—16,
IAML
158—9.
| 3 | but / that 1st, EFTD |
| 10 | brother / brother, 1st |
| 11 | to me - the ear, nose, and throat man, fell dead 1st |
| | to me - the ear-nose-and-throat man, fell dead EFTD |
| 14 | his body / body 1st, EFTD |
| 22 | Dead / Was dead 1st |
| 31 | bracket / bracket than us 1st, EFTD |
| 33 | in/then in 1st, EFTD |
| | at the time in AUP |
| 39 | brother / brother, 1st, EFTD |
| 40 | for the sake of / to allow egress to 1st, EFTD |
| 41 | hell!/ hell? 1st, EFTD |
23
SPELL
: in
IAML
141—2.
24
FROM THE EAST, LIGHT
:
1st
in
Northwest Review
[Univ. of Oregon, Eugene] 24.1 (1986): 56; in
IAML
58.
| 16 | litter / cover 1st |
25
A TALL ORDER
:
1st
in
Poetry
[Chicago, Ill.] 148.3 (June 1986): 128.
| 1—2 | The old woman who kept house for them. |
| | She’d seen and heard the most amazing things. 1st |
| 22 | the rusty swing set and Jungle-Gym bars. 1st |
26
THE AUTHOR OF HER MISFORTUNE
: in
IAML
51.
27
POWDER-MONKEY
:
1st
in
Northwest Review
[Univ. of Oregon, Eugene] 24.1 (1986): 55; in
EFTD
14,
IAML
120—1.
| 11 | and was destroyed |
| | by a logging truck. 1st |
| 14 | from his eyes / away 1st, EFTD |
| 25 | toward / towards IAML |
28
EARWIGS
: in
IAML
103—4.