New Releases by Raymond Carver

In un unico, prestigioso cofanetto, una raccolta che include tutte le poesie di Raymond Carver con testo originale a fronte. Un''occasione per celebrare un grande scrittore che, in prosa e in versi, ha saputo raccontare con verità, economia di stile e profondità di sguardo il mondo degli ultimi, dei reietti, dei senza riscatto. «E hai ottenuto quello che / volevi da questa vita, nonostante tutto? / Sì. / E cos''è che volevi? / Potermi dire amato, sentirmi / amato sulla terra». Con questo frammento poetico, nel 1988, Raymond Carver prendeva congedo dal mondo. E i versi, insieme alla prosa cristallina dei suoi racconti, ai saggi, ai ricordi personali, hanno costituito fin dagli esordi la sua cifra, scandendo una ricerca letteraria che nella brevità, nella sintesi, nella sottrazione, nelle minute epifanie del quotidiano ha trovato la sua chiave. Nei due volumi di questo cofanetto è presente la sua intera opera poetica. Un''occasione unica per imparare a conoscere, anche al di là delle tre raccolte che lo hanno reso celebre, le tante forme diverse che Carver ha utilizzato per raccontare se stesso, il suo mondo, i personaggi stralunati e sconfitti che lo popolano. Con un''introduzione di Tess Gallagher e un''intervista inedita.

"Los deslumbrados lectores de "Catedral", primer libro publicado en Espaäna de Carver, reencontrarâan en "De quâe hablamos cuando hablamos de amor" la atmâosfera y los personajes de un autor que dominâo indiscutiblemente el panorama literario norteamericano de los aänos 80. Parejas que se despedazan, compaäneros que parten desesperadamente a la aventura, hijos que intentan comunicarse con sus padres, un universo injusto, violento, tenso, a veces irrisorio... En palabras de Roberto Fernâandez Sastre, Carver (S0 (Bno designa lo intolerable, sino que lo nombra. Sin concesiones hacia nada ni hacia nadie, rescata lo real en su esencialidad amorfa y brutal (S1 (B." --

• El Poeta – R. W. EMERSON (trad. Fernando Vidagañ Murgui) • Haciendo/Construyendo la contracultura (II) – Kenneth REXROTH (trad. Fernando Correa Navarro) • A backward Glance O`Er Travel`d Roads – Walt WHITMAN • Walden – de H. D. THOREAU (trad. Antonio Casado da Roca) • Entrevista a Charles WRIGHT – por Adalber Salas Hernández Homenaje a Ezra Pound – Charles Wright (trad. A. S. H.) La Escuela de Cristo – Charles Wright (trad. A. S. H.) • Tres poetas del Renacimiento inglés – SIR PHILIP SIDNEY – SAMUEL DANIEL – JOHN FLETCHER (trad. Lucas Margarit) • “Poetas del cementerio” (Graveyard Poets) – Por Juan Arabia Thomas CHATTERTON, Adiós (trad. J. A.) William COWPER, El Náufrago (trad. Pablo Ingberg) William COLLINS, Fidele (trad. J. A.) • Thomas CHATTERTON – El Mito del Poeta Condenado – Ian Haywood • Les poètes maudits – Villiers de L’Isle-Adam (trad. Mariano Rolando Andrade) • ¡Hiciste bien en irte, Arthur Rimbaud! – René CHAR • Parodies of LUSTRA – Gerald BRENAN (trad. Carlos Pranger) • Cavando – Seamus HEANEY (trad. Andrés Piña) • All of Us: The Collected Poems – Raymond CARVER (trad. Carlos Llaza) • Buenos Aires (& otros poemas) – Dino CAMPANA (trad. Antonio Nazzaro) • Heptonstall & otros poemas (inédito) – Víctor RODRÍGUEZ NÚÑEZ • Las prisas del instante & Otros poemas, de Federico DÍAZ-GRANADOS • Marianne Moore o el laboratorio -de Eleonora FINKELSTEIN • ELPÉNOR – Manipulación de la Calavera – de Víctor Manuel PINTO POSDATA • Carta de John FANTE a Charles BUKOWSKI (1979) • (Anadyomène) RIMBAUD por Ezra POUND (trad. de Juan Arabia)

Raymond Carver alcanzó el éxito gracias a un puñado de volúmenes de relatos publicados en los últimos doce años de su vida. Su carrera fue breve debido a su temprana muerte. Sin embargo, su obra posee una intensidad sin parangón y ha dejado una huella indeleble; su influencia se ha extendido por todo el mundo. Fue, junto con Richard Ford y Tobias Wolff, el máximo exponente de lo que se bautizó como «realismo sucio». En sus cuentos, lacónicos, precisos, de una contenida intensidad emocional, transforma la vida en literatura siguiendo la estela de Hemingway y sobre todo de Chéjov, su gran maestro. De él aprendió a retratar con profunda humanidad a esos seres desamparados y desolados, golpeados por la vida, a los que convierte en héroes cotidianos: parejas al borde de la disolución, hijos que tratan de comunicarse con sus padres, alcohólicos en busca de una segunda oportunidad, parados, gente corriente de la América más profunda y real. Sus cuentos forman una elusiva y fragmentaria «gran novela americana». Y es que en Carver está la esencia de la verdadera América –doméstica, desquiciada, perpleja-, y sobre todo la esencia del alma humana retratada a través de una mirada que rechaza cualquier exceso sentimental, pero que, guiada por un depurado estilo, nos hiere directamente en el corazón como sólo es capaz de hacer la gran literatura.

From “one of the great short story writers of our time—of any time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)—comes the original manuscript of the seminal 1981 collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Raymond Carver is one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature—his style is both instantly recognizable and hugely influential—and the pieces in What We Talk About…, which portray the gritty loves and lives of the American working class, are counted among the foundation stones of the contemporary short story. In this unedited text, we gain insight into the process of a great writer. These expansive stories illuminate the many dimensions of Carver’s style, and are indispensable to our understanding of his legacy. Text established by William L. Stull and Maureen P. Carroll

A rich collection of poems from not only “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), but one of America’s most large-hearted and affecting poets. Like Raymond Carver’s stories, the more than 300 poems in All of Us are marked by a keen attention to the physical world; an uncanny ability to compress vast feeling into discreet moments; a voice of conversational intimacy, and an unstinting sympathy. This complete edition brings together all the poems of Carver’s five previous books, from Fires to the posthumously published No Heroics, Please. It also contains bibliographical and textual notes on individual poems; a chronology of Carver’s life and work; and a moving introduction by Carver’s widow, the poet Tess Gallagher.

The first collection of stories from “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) breathed new life into the American short story, showing us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people. "[Carver''s stories] can ... be counted among the masterpieces of American Literature." —The New York Times Book Review "One of the great short story writers of our time—of any time." —The Philadelhpia Inquirer "The whole collection is a knock out. Few writers can match Raymond Carver''s entwining style and language." —The Dallas Morning News

The final story collection from “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) features classic stories from Cathedral, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and earlier volumes. • “Among the masterpieces of American fiction." —The New York Times Book Review By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imaginations of thousands of readers. Where I’m Calling From, his last collection, includes seven new works previously unpublished in book form. Together, these 37 stories give us a superb overview of Carver’s life work and show us why he was so widely imitated but never equaled.

The complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the five posthumously discovered “last” stories, published here in book form for the first time—from “one of the great short story writers of our time—of any time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Call If You Need Me includes all of the prose previously collected in No Heroics, Please, four essays from Fires, and those five marvelous stories that range over the period of Carver’s mature writing and give his devoted readers a final glimpse of the great writer at work. The pure pleasure of Carver’s writing is everywhere in his work, here no less than in those stories that have already entered the canon of modern literature.

From “one of the great short story writers of our time—of any time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)—comes more than sixty stories, poems, and essays, including two early versions from the seminal collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. "Show[s] the enormous talent of Raymond Carver beginning to take hold." —San Francisco Chronicle A wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver. Two of the stories that were later significantly revised in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love appear here in their original form, revealing clearly the astounding process of Carver’s literary development.

From “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)—nine stories and a poem that offer a searing portrait of American innocence and loss—and formed the basis for the film “Short Cuts” directed by Robert Altman. With deadpan humor and enormous tenderness, this is the work of “one of the true contemporary masters” (The New York Review of Books). Features stories from the collections Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, Where I’m Calling From, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and A New Path to the Waterfall; including an introduction by Robert Altman.

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection • From one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature, the story that launched a thousand homages, in word and film—a haunting meditation on love and companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark. “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” is included here with its unedited version, “Beginners,” which was originally submitted to Carver’s editor, Gordon Lish. In this eShort, readers can compare both versions of this iconic work of fiction, gaining insight into Carver’s aesthetic and the foundations of the contemporary American short story.

Con l'uscita nel 1976 di Vuoi star zitta per favore , la prima raccolta di Raymond Carver, s'imprimevauna svolta irreversibile nell'idea di short story e, presto, nell'intero panorama letterario americano. Già all'indomani della pubblicazione, lo scrittore Geoffrey Wolff commentava dalle pagine del New York Times: «Mi piace credere che, avendo letto questi racconti, potrei identificarne l'autore sulla base di un solo paragrafo, due al massimo», e l'unicità di quella combinazione di temi e stile rimane a tutt'oggi insuperato modello e pietra di paragone.

Principiants és la versió original del recull de relats més famós que va escriure Raymond Carver -De què parlem quan parlem de l'amor- abans que Gordon Lish, el seu editor i mentor, la modifiqués de manera substancial per publicar-lo el 1981. Amb el temps, el text que va veure la llum esdevindria una de les obres que més han influenciat en la literatura moderna.Carver es preocupa per reflectir l'essència de les coses. Una joveneta balla amb el nòvio al jardí d'una casa, entre les despulles materials de la vida del propietari; un home de mitjana edat percep els primers indicis dels perills de la vida adulta, i sent com l'envaeix una "felicitat insuportable"; una parella que viu i treballa en un motel s'adona, amb gran dolor, que la seva relació s'ha esgotat. A mesura que ens movem a través de les petites i múltiples tragèdies inscrites en el cor d'allò més normal i corrent, prenem consciència de nous significats i matisos. Principiants és una profunda i fascinant incursió dins de l'estètica d'un dels autors contemporanis més influents del segle XX.«L'autèntic Carver que veiem ara és molt més tendre, menys cru que el Carver de Lish. L'autèntic Carver dóna peu a digressions i històries secundàries. L'autèntic Carver no és carverià». Blake Morrison

Korean edition of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories by Raymond Carver. Translated by Jeong Yeong Mun In Korean. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Part of The Wadsworh Casebooks for Reading, Research, and Writing Series, this new title provides all the materials a reader needs to complete a literary research assignment in one convenient location. Includes a concise guide to MLA documentation, including information on what kinds of information require documentation and what kinds do not.

Los dramas aparentemente más triviales, las catástrofes silenciosas de la gente común. En ¿Quieres hacer el favor de callarte, por favor?, su primer libro de relatos, que escribió y reescribió a lo largo de quince años y que le supuso la consagración inmediata, Raymond Carver renovó la forma del relato breve hasta darle proporciones de haiku y sin que este uso radical de la elipsis le haga perder ninguna fuerza. Todo lo contrario, los relatos de Carver poseen, quizá precisamente por su mismo carácter fragmentario, una inesperada capacidad de provocar una impresión fortísima, una indeleble conmoción. Los dramas aparentemente más triviales, las catástrofes silenciosas de la gente más común: tal es el territorio en el que se mueven siempre los inquietantes relatos de Carver.

Over the past 15 years, Granta has published fiction, memoir, biography, and reportage inspired by the relationships forced on us by the accident of birth. From Saul Bellow's tale of his immigrant parents to Bret Easton Ellis' chilling description of a Hollywood marriage, the best and, at times, the most disturbing are collected here in this noteworthy collection.

This volume of previously uncollected work represents the final legacy of one of the great and truly American writers of our time. It includes five of Raymond Carver''s early stories (including the first one he ever published), a fragment of an unpublished novel, poems that have previously appeared only in small-press editions, and all of his uncollected nonfiction. Included here as well is Carver''s last essay, "Friendship" about a London reunion with Richard Ford and Tobias Wolff. Arranged chronologically, this book affords an intimate and comprehensive thirty-year vision of a great writer in the process of becoming himself.