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Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Editor's Preface
xxi
Introduction
xxiii
Tess Gallagher
FIRES (1983)
I
Drinking While Driving
3
1
Luck
3
2
Distress Sale
5
1
Your Dog Dies
6
1
Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year
7
1
Hamid Ramouz (1818--1906)
8
1
Bankruptcy
8
1
The Baker
9
1
Iowa Summer
9
1
Alcohol
10
1
For Semra, with Martial Vigor
11
2
Looking for Work [I]
13
1
Cheers
14
1
Rogue River Jet-Boat Trip, Gold Beach, Oregon, July 4, 1977
15
1
II
You Don't Know What Love Is
16
5
III
Morning, Thinking of Empire
21
1
The Blue Stones
21
1
Tel Aviv and Life on the Mississippi
22
2
The News Carried to Macedonia
24
2
The Mosque in Jaffa
26
1
Not Far from Here
26
1
Sudden Rain
27
1
Balzac
28
1
Country Matters
28
1
This Room
29
1
Rhodes
30
1
Spring, 480 BC
31
1
IV
Near Klamath
32
1
Autumn
32
1
Winter Insomnia
33
1
Prosser
33
1
At Night the Salmon Move
34
1
With a Telescope Rod on Cowiche Creek
35
1
Poem for Dr Pratt, a Lady Pathologist
35
1
Wes Hardin: From a Photograph
36
1
Marriage
37
1
The Other Life
38
1
The Mailman as Cancer Patient
39
1
Poem for Hemingway & W. C. Williams
40
1
Torture
41
1
Bobber
42
1
Highway 99E from Chico
42
1
The Cougar
43
1
The Current
44
1
Hunter
44
1
Trying to Sleep Late on a Saturday Morning in November
45
1
Louise
46
1
Poem for Karl Wallenda, Aerialist Supreme
46
2
Deschutes River
48
1
Forever
48
5
WHERE WATER COMES TOGETHER WITH OTHER WATER (1985)
I
Woolworth's, 1954
53
2
Radio Waves
55
2
Movement
57
1
Hominy and Rain
58
1
The Road
59
1
Fear
60
1
Romanticism
61
1
The Ashtray
61
2
Still Looking Out for Number One
63
1
Where Water Comes Together with Other Water
63
2
II
Happiness
65
1
The Old Days
66
1
Our First House in Sacramento
67
1
Next Year
68
2
To My Daughter
70
1
Anathema
71
1
Energy
72
1
Locking Yourself Out, Then Trying to Get Back In
73
1
Medicine
74
1
Wenas Ridge
75
2
Reading
77
1
Rain
78
1
Money
78
1
Aspens
79
2
III
At Least
81
1
The Grant
82
1
By Boat
82
1
The Poem I Didn't Write
83
1
Work
84
1
In the Year 2020
84
2
The Juggler at Heaven's Gate
86
1
My Daughter and Apple Pie
86
1
Commerce
87
1
The Fishing Pole of the Drowned Man
88
1
A Walk
88
1
My Dad's Wallet
89
3
IV
Ask Him
92
2
Next Door
94
1
The Caucasus: A Romance
95
2
A Forge, and a Scythe
97
1
The Pipe
98
1
Listening
98
1
In Switzerland
99
3
V
A Squall
102
1
My Crow
103
1
The Party
103
1
After Rainy Days
104
1
Interview
104
1
Blood
105
1
Tomorrow
106
1
Grief
106
1
Harley's Swans
107
2
VI
Elk Camp
109
2
The Windows of the Summer Vacation Houses
111
2
Memory [1]
113
1
Away
113
1
Music
114
1
Plus
114
1
All Her Life
115
1
The Hat
116
2
Late Night with Fog and Horses
118
1
Venice
119
1
The eve of Battle
120
1
Extirpation
121
1
The Catch
121
1
My Death
122
1
To Begin With
123
2
The Cranes
125
2
VII
A Haircut
127
1
Happiness in Cornwall
128
1
Afghanistan
129
1
In a Marine Light near Sequim, Washington
130
1
Eagles
131
1
Yesterday, Snow
131
1
Reading Something in the Restaurant
132
1
A Poem Not against Songbirds
133
1
Late Afternoon, April 8, 1984
134
1
My Work
135
1
The Trestle
136
2
For Tess
138
3
ULTRAMARINE (1986)
I
This Morning
141
1
What You Need for Painting
142
1
An Afternoon
143
1
Circulation
143
2
The Cobweb
145
1
Balsa Wood
145
1
The Projectile
146
2
The Mail
148
1
The Autopsy Room
149
1
Where They'd Lived
150
1
Memory [2]
150
1
The Car
151
1
Stupid
152
1
Union Street: San Francisco, Summer 1975
153
2
Bonnard's Nudes
155
1
Jean's TV
155
2
Mesopotamia
157
1
The Jungle
158
1
Hope
159
1
The House behind This One
160
1
Limits
161
2
The Sensitive Girl
163
2
II
The Minuet
165
1
Egress
165
2
Spell
167
1
From the East, Light
168
1
A Tall Order
169
1
The Author of Her Misfortune
170
1
Powder-Monkey
171
1
Earwigs
172
1
NyQuil
173
1
The Possible
174
1
Shiftless
175
1
The Young Fire Eaters of Mexico City
176
1
Where the Groceries Went
176
1
What I Can Do
177
1
The Little Room
178
1
Sweet Light
179
1
The Garden
180
1
Son
181
1
Kafka's Watch
182
1
III
The Lightning Speed of the Past
183
1
Vigil
183
1
In the Lobby of the Hotel del Mayo
184
1
Bahia, Brazil
185
1
The Phenomenon
186
1
Wind
187
1
Migration
188
2
Sleeping
190
1
The River
190
1
The Best Time of the Day
191
1
Scale
192
2
Company
194
1
Yesterday
194
1
The Schooldesk
195
2
Cutlery
197
1
The Pen
198
1
The Prize
199
1
An Account
200
2
The Meadow
202
1
Loafing
203
1
Sinew
203
2
Waiting
205
1
IV
The Debate
206
1
Its Course
206
2
September
208
1
The White Field
209
1
Shooting
210
1
The Window
211
1
Heels
211
2
The Phone Booth
213
1
Cadillacs and Poetry
214
1
Simple
215
1
The Scartch
216
1
Mother
216
1
The Child
217
1
The Fields
218
1
After Reading Two Towns in Provence
219
1
Evening
220
1
The Rest
220
1
Slippers
221
1
Asia
222
1
The Gift
223
4
A NEW PATH TO THE WATERFALL (1989)
Gift
227
2
Czeslaw Milosz
I
Wet Picture
229
1
Jaroslav Seifert
Thermopylae
230
1
Two Worlds
230
1
Smoke and Deception
231
1
Anton Chekhov
In a Greek Orthodox Church near Daphne
231
1
For the Record
232
1
Transformation
233
1
Threat
234
1
Conspirators
234
1
This Word Love
235
1
Don't Run
235
1
Chekhov
Woman Bathing
236
1
II
The Name
237
1
Tomas Transtromer
Looking for Work [2]
237
1
The World Book Salesman
238
1
The Toes
239
1
The Moon, the Train
240
2
Two Carriages
242
1
Chekhov
Miracle
242
3
My Wife
245
1
Wine
246
1
After the Fire
247
1
Chekhov
III
from A Journal of Southern Rivers
248
1
Charles Wright
The Kitchen
248
1
Songs in the Distance
249
1
Chekhov
Suspenders
250
1
What You Need to Know for Fishing
251
1
Stephen Oliver
Oyntment to Alure Fish to the Bait
252
1
James Chetham
The Sturgeon
252
2
Night Dampness
254
1
Chekhov
Another Mystery
255
1
IV
Return to Krakow in 1880
256
1
Czeslaw Milosz
Sunday Night
257
1
The Painter & the Fish
257
2
At Noon
259
1
Chekhov
Artaud
259
1
Caution
260
1
One More
260
2
At the Bird Market
262
1
Chekhov
His Bathrobe Pockets Stuffed with Notes
262
2
The March into Russia
264
1
Some Prose on Poetry
265
3
Poems
268
1
Letter
269
1
The Young Girls
270
1
V
Epilogue
271
1
Robert Lowell
The Offending Eel
271
3
Sorrel
274
1
Chekhov
The Attic
274
1
Margo
274
1
On an Old Photograph of My Son
275
2
Five O'Clock in the Morning
277
1
Chekhov
Summer Fog
277
1
Hummingbird
278
1
Out
278
1
Downstream
279
1
Chekhov
The Net
280
1
Nearly
280
3
VI
Foreboding
283
1
Chekhov
Quiet Nights
283
1
Sparrow Nights
283
1
Chekhov
Lemonade
284
3
Such Diamonds
287
1
Chekhov
Wake Up
287
2
What the Doctor Said
289
1
Let's Roar, Your Honor
290
1
Chekhov
Proposal
290
2
Cherish
292
1
Gravy
292
1
No Need
293
1
Through the Boughs
293
1
Afterglow
293
1
Late Fragment
294
83
APPENDIXES:
1. Uncollected Poems: No Heroics, Please (1991)
The Brass Ring
297
1
Beginnings
297
1
On the Pampas Tonight
298
1
Those Days
298
1
The Sunbather, to Herself
299
1
No Heroics, Please
300
1
Adultery
300
2
Poem on My Birthday, July 2
302
1
Return
303
1
For the Egyptian Coin Today, Arden, Thank You
303
1
In the Trenches with Robert Graves
303
1
The Man Outside
304
1
Seeds
305
1
Betrayal
305
1
The Contact
306
1
Something Is Happening
306
1
A Summer in Sacramento
307
2
Reaching
309
1
Soda Crackers
310
1
2. Introduction by Tess Gallagher to A New Path to the Waterfall
311
10
3. Small Press Sources of Carver's Major Books
321
6
4. A Note on In a Marine Light
327
6
5. Bibliographical and Textual Notes
333
38
Abbreviations
333
1
Notes: Fires
334
11
Where Water Comes Together with Other Water
345
8
Ultramarine
353
8
A New Path to the Waterfall
361
7
Uncollected Poems: No Heroics, Please
368
3
6. Chronology
371
5
7. Posthumous Publications
376
1
Index of Titles
377
4
Index of First Lines
381