Poetry of Raymond Carver

Taylor & Francis

Best known as one of the great short story writers of the twentieth century, Raymond Carver also published several volumes of poetry and considered himself as much a poet as a fiction writer. Sandra Lee Kleppe focuses particularly on the complex literary and scientific systems that influenced Carver\u2019s development as a writer as she makes a case for the quality of Carver\u2019s poetic output and the centrality of poetry to Carver\u2019s career. > Best known as one of the great short story writers of the twentieth century, Raymond Carver also published several volumes of poetry and considered himself as much a poet as a fiction writer. Sandra Lee Kleppe combines comparative analysis with an in-depth examination of Carver\u2019s poems, making a case for the quality of Carver\u2019s poetic output and showing the central role Carver\u2019s pursuit of poetry played in his career as a writer. Carver constructed his own organic literary system of 'autopoetics,' a concept connected to.