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Abstract
etween 1976 and 1988, Raymond Carver
~hed ten books of poetry and prose, as well
umerous chapbooks and limited editions, and
leventh book - another collection of poems -
ared the year after he died. He was the rent
of a number of awards, including three
;Henry awards, a 1979 National Endowment
ithe Arts Award, nominations for the pulitzer
.e, a National Book Critics Circle Award, the
tigious Mildred and Harold Strauss Living
rd, Poetry Magazine’s Levinson Prize, an
orary doctorate of Letters from Hartford Unisity,
and a Brandeis Citation in fiction.
The nature of Carver’s success and his meric
rise to international acclaim, seems all the
re extraordinary when one considers his inspicious
beginnings. Born in 1938 in the small
II town of Clastkanie, Oregon, he was as a
ung man expected to take his high school dima
and work at the sawmill with his father, a
rd drinking laborer who had migrated to the
acific Northwest from Arkansas. Carver married
hortly after his nineteenth birthday, and had two
hildren within the first eighteen months of his
arriage. In 1958, he moved south to California
nd enrolled at Chico State College. where he
tudied writing under John Gardner, and, pressed