Authors: Raymond Carver
All of Us (40 page)
46
TRYING TO SLEEP LATE ON A SATURDAY MORNING IN NOVEMBER
:
1st
in
Chelsea
[New York, NY] 22—3 (June 1968): 58; in
NK
[24],
ANTSM
13. All lines begin with capital letters in
1st
and
NK
.
| 3—4 | We are approaching the |
| | Third and final phase, this 1st |
| | third and final phase, this ANTSM |
| 14 | fishermen / fisherman 1st, NK, ANTSM |
| 20—2 | My hair crawls. |
| | I begin to sweat under all the bedclothes. 1st, NK, |
| | ANTSM |
47
LOUISE
:
1st
in
Ironwood
[Tucson, Ariz.] 19 [10.1] (Spring 1982): 133; separately published with
“The Baker”
in
Two Poems
(Salisbury, Md.: Scarab Press, 1982).
| 25 | back - / back. She Two Poems |
| 25—6 | and steps back from this near human shape. 1st |
48
POEM FOR KARL WALLENDA, AERIALIST SUPREME
:
1st
in
Kayak
[Santa Cruz, Calif.] 57 (1981): 27.
| 2—3 | all over Magdeburg. In Vienna wind looked |
| | for you in first one courtyard then another. 1st |
| 8 | the / those 1st |
| 27—32 | on the first day of spring, that wind which has been |
| | everywhere and done everything with you, |
| | it comes in from the Caribbean |
| | to throw itself once and for all into your arms, like a young lover! |
| | Your hair crawls. You try to crouch, to reach for wire. 1st |
49
DESCHUTES RIVER
:
1st
in
Western Humanities Review
[Univ. of Utah] 21.1 (Winter 1967): 56; in
NK
[5—6],
Esquire
[New York, NY] 76.2 (Aug. 1971): 76,
ANTSM
32.
| 4 | so that / that 1st, NK, Esquire, ANTSM |
| 14 | Later, |
| | eight mallard ducks fly over 1st, NK, Esquire, ANTSM |
| 16 | Frank / Jack 1st, NK, Esquire, ANTSM |
| 23 | away - / away, 1st, NK, Esquire, ANTSM |
50
FOREVER
:
1st
in
Kayak
[Santa Cruz, Calif.] 16 (1968): 50; in
WI
30.
Title: “The Wall”
1st, WI
| 9 | entire / whole 1st, WI |
| 12 | tonight / tonight, 1st, WI |
| 24 | down / down and wander 1st, WI |
| 25—6 | back into the house. They are still |
| | there, God help them all, waiting, 1st, WI |
| 27 | faces / faces now 1st, WI |
First edition: New York, NY: Random House, 1985. Publication date: 1 May 1985.
First paperback edition: New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1986. Publication date: 24 Apr. 1986.
First selected and combined English edition:
In a Marine Light: Selected Poems.
London: Collins Harvill, 1987. Publication date: 1 June 1987.
Dedication:
for Tess Gallagher and Morris R. Bond
. Morris R. Bond is Tess Gallagher’s brother, a writer, outdoorsman, and native of Port Angeles, Washington.
Copy-text: First edition, first printing, collated and corrected against later editions and printings overseen by RC.
Small-press sources and separate publications:
My Crow
(Ewert, 1984),
For Tess
(Ewert, 1984),
TW
(Ewert, 1985),
Music
(Ewert, 1987),
Afghanistan
(Ewert, 1988),
In the Year 2020
(Okeanos, 1993).
1
WOOLWORTH’S
, 1954:
1st
in
Paris Review
[Flushing, NY] 26.93 (Fall 1984): 42—4; in
TW
11—13,
IAML
18—20.
| 4—5 | telling me he’d be here in a few minutes |
| | to go clamming IAML |
| 5 | go / take me TW |
| 9 | a stockboy like I was. He’d been 1st, TW |
| 10 | there forever, and had worked his way 1st |
| | there forever. Had worked his way TW |
| 12 | me / I was 1st, TW |
| 19 | knew. He was / knew. Was AUP |
| 21—2 | Most important memory of that |
| | time: opening 1st |
| | Most important memory of that whole |
| | time coming back to me now: opening TW |
| 32 | I got / got 1st, TW |
| 39 | happened. / happened! 1st, TW , AUP |
| 45 | skin. / skin! 1st, TW |
| 49 | calves! / calves. TW |
| 71 | sister, / sister IAML |
| 72 | girls. / girls, TW , AUP |
| 73 | Grownup / grownup TW |
| 74 | I’ll say it: dead. / I’ll say it: Dead. 1st |
| | Need I say it? Dead. TW |
2
RADIO WAVES
:
1st
in
Paris Review
[Flushing, NY] 26.93 (Fall 1984): 37—8; in
IAML
152—3.
| 5 | want to / want 1st |
| 12 | the papers / newspapers 1st |
| 13 | get away / absent myself 1st |
| 20 | trustworthy / to be trusted 1st |
| 25 | It didn’t matter, it said, even if a man sang. 1st |
| 32 | Then, Machado, the advent of your poetry in my life! 1st |
| 35 | and / but 1st |
| 48 | it / your book 1st |
3
MOVEMENT
:
1st
in
Paris Review
[Flushing, NY] 26.93 (Fall 1984): 40.
| 11 | slack. / slack! 1st |
| 12 | for / For 1st |
4
HOMINY AND RAIN
:
1st
in
Paris Review
[Flushing, NY] 26.93 (Fall 1984): 49—50; in
IAML
150—1.
| 15 | be true. That they smelled like that. Those blossoms. I can’t say. 1st |
| 41 | though that / though AUP |
5
THE ROAD
:
1st
in
Paris Review
[Flushing, NY] 26.93 (Fall 1984): 39.
| 8 | glass / tiles in the courtyard 1st |
| 16 | curtain / curtains 1st |
6
FEAR
:
1st
in
Paris Review
[Flushing, NY] 26.93 (Fall 1984): 41; in
IAML
155.
| 21 | of waking / I’ll wake 1st |
7
ROMANTICISM
:
1st
in
Paris Review
[Flushing, NY] 26.93 (Fall 1984): 51; in
IAML
62.
Dedication: (For
my friend Linda Gregg, after reading “Classicism”
)
1st
8
THE ASHTRAY
:
1st
in
Paris Review
[Flushing, NY] 26.93 (Fall 1984): 45—6.
| 2 | apartment / flat 1st |
| 9 | cigarettes and ashes during this painful conversation. 1st |
| 37 | harm? / harm? he thinks. 1st |
9
STILL LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE
:
1st
in
Paris Review
[Flushing, NY] 26.93 (Fall 1984): 48; in
IAML
40.
| 17 | I can’t / can’t 1st , AUP |
10
WHERE WATER COMES TOGETHER WITH OTHER WATER
:
1st
in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 403; in
TW
19,
IAML
194—5.
| 10 | join / meet TW |
| 16 | or / and 1st, TW |
| 22 | 45 / forty-five 1st, TW , AUP |
| 24, 25 | 35 / thirty-five 1st, TW , AUP |
11
HAPPINESS
:
1st
in
Poetry
[Chicago, Ill.] 145.5 (Feb. 1985): 251; in
IAML
15.
| 8 | wear / have on 1st |
| 9 | one / the one 1st , AUP |
| 18 | pale / palely 1st |
| 20 | love, / love 1st |
12
THE OLD DAYS
:
1st
in
Pequod
[National Poetry Foundation, Univ. of Maine, Orono] 18 (1985): 50—1; in
IAML
179—80.
| 11 | food / dinner 1st |
| 16—17 | [no stanza break in 1st ] |
| 18—19 | as he was going upstairs with |
| | it and talked him down. 1st |
| 48 | for trouble / to be used 1st |
13
OUR FIRST HOUSE IN SACRAMENTO
:
1st
in
Pequod
[National Poetry Foundation, Univ. of Maine, Orono] 18 (1985): 47; in
TW
16,
IAML
42—3.
| 27 | firsthand / from first-hand 1st, TW |
| | from firsthand AUP |
| 30 | a / the 1st, TW , AUP |
14
NEXT YEAR
:
1st
in
Grand Street
[New York, NY] 4.2 (Winter 1985): 88; in
IAML
54—5.
| 23 | out of / out. Out of 1st |
15
TO MY DAUGHTER
: in
IAML
56—7.
16
ANATHEMA
:
1st
in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 427; in
IAML
63—4.
| 24 | in / by the 1st , AUP |
| 36 | around would / would IAML |
17
ENERGY
:
1st
in
Crazyhorse
[Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock] 27 (Fall 1984): 10; in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 428,
IAML
50.
| 30 | relentlessly / remorselessly Tendril |
18
LOCKING YOURSELF OUT, THEN TRYING TO GET BACK IN
:
1st
in
Pequod
[National Poetry Foundation, Univ. of Maine, Orono] 18 (1985): 48—9; in
IAML
177—8.
| 13 | friends / my dears 1st |
| 35 | again / then 1st |
19
MEDICINE
:
1st
in
New Letters
[Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City] 51.2 (Winter 1984—5): 14.
20
WENAS RIDGE
:
1st
in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 412—13; in
TW
14—15,
IAML
88—9.
| 7 | golden / gold 1st, TW , AUP |
| 11—12 | To the top of Wenas Ridge. |
| | Where we walked out of pine trees and could see 1st, TW |
| 30—1 | pushing into undergrowth. Shadows falling from trees now. |
| | But flat rocks that held the day’s heat. And snakes. 1st, TW |
| 43 | The / And 1st, TW , AUP |
| 49 | I’ve / have 1st, TW |
21
READING
: in
IAML
138—9.
| 9 | Yes, if I had even half a chance. AUP |
23
MONEY
:
1st
in
Poetry
[Chicago, Ill.] 145.5 (Feb. 1985): 252—3; in
IAML
24—5.
| 4 | To go / Go 1st |
| 8 | money / of it 1st |
| 27 | love / love it, 1st , AUP |
| 28—9 | who’d flip out to see him |
| | in his own boat, sails full, 1st |
