All of Us (38 page)
Authors: Raymond Carver
| 6 | things as well / things 1st, NK, WI |
| 19—20 | [stanza break between these lines in 1st ] |
| 33—4 | O Semra Semra |
| | Istanbul nee |
| | Constantinople |
| | Next to Paris she said 1st, NK |
| 49—53 | [omitted in WI ] |
| 50 | goddamn / goddam 1st, NK |
12
LOOKING FOR WORK
[1]: in
WI
16; see
“Looking for Work” [2]
in
ANP
; separately published with
“Downstream”
ANP
as a broadside (n.p.: 1988). The
F
version differs from the texts in
WI
and
ANP
, which are identical. The broadside, which otherwise agrees with
WI
and
ANP
, lacks the comma ending line 6 (likely a typographical error).
| 1 | I’ve / I have WI, broadside, ANP |
| 13 | door. / door, WI, broadside, ANP |
| 14 | They are gleaming. / gleaming. WI, broadside, ANP |
13
CHEERS
:
1st
in
Esquire
[New York, NY] 86.1 (July 1976): 12; in
Prism International
[Univ. of British Columbia] 21.2 (Winter 1982): 28.
| 7—8 | or else they call, Come out and play, |
| | Raymond. 1st |
| 13 | dropped / stopped 1st |
14
ROGUE RIVER JET-BOAT TRIP, GOLD BEACH, OREGON, JULY
4, 1977:
1st
in
Antioch Review
[Antioch Univ.] 36.3 (Summer 1978): 372.
| Title: TRIP,/TRIP 1st | |
| 2 | marten, osprey / marten, mink, osprey 1st |
| 4 | family, / family 1st |
| 20—1 | His good eye, the left, is brown, |
| | is steady of purpose, and doesn’t 1st |
| 24 | youth, and / and youth and 1st |
| 28 | I am not drinking, though I am still weak 1st |
15
YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS (AN EVENING WITH CHARLES BUKOWSKI)
:
1st
in
Crazyhorse
[Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock] 12 (Autumn 1972): 1—5; in
ANTSM
33—37.
| 21 | [omitted in ANTSM ] |
| 62 | could / would 1st, ANTSM |
| 118 | old now / old ANTSM |
16
MORNING, THINKING OF EMPIRE
:
1st
in
Kayak
[Santa Cruz, Calif.] 27 (1971): 49; in
ANTSM
11. All lines begin with capital letters in
1st
.
| 1 | rim / rims 1st, ANTSM |
| 4—6 | Eyes and fingers drop onto silverware that is not |
| | silverware. Outside the window, waves beat against |
| | the chipped white walls of the old city. Suddenly, 1st, ANTSM |
| 7 | Your / your ANTSM |
| 9 | To hell with the future, I want to say. 1st, ANTSM |
17
THE BLUE STONES
:
1st
in
Mississippi Review
[Univ. of Southern Mississippi] 21 [7.3] (Fall 1978): 114—15.
18
TEL AVIV AND
LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI:
in
ANTSM
22—3.
| 9 | Jones’ landing appears out ANTSM |
| 29 | further / farther ANTSM |
19
THE NEWS CARRIED TO MACEDONIA
:
1st
in
Discourse
[Concordia College (Moorhead, Minn.)] 11.4 (Autumn 1968): 439—40; in
WI
9—10.
| 34 | The / the 1st, WI |
| 41—4 | wind |
| | bird flocks fill the air |
| | they clack their bills |
| | with a sound like iron on iron 1st, WI |
| 44—5 | [stanza break between these lines in WI ] |
| 48 | trail / smell 1st, WI |
| 52—4 | the Hetaeri touches |
| | each of the sleeping |
| | soldiers 1st, WI |
20
THE MOSQUE IN JAFFA
: in
WI
15.
| 7 | Killed he says WI |
| 8 | Words / words WI |
| 14 | love murder / murder love WI |
| 26—7 | Time is running out as |
| | I look at me from his dark eyes. WI |
21
NOT FAR FROM HERE
: in
WI
29. All lines begin with capital letters in
WI
.
| 5 | careful. / careful, WI |
| 6 | I look / Look WI |
| 12 | do you / d’you WI |
| 14 | in / There in WI |
| 16 | closer, kneel / closer WI |
| 18 | Corpse , she whispers. The dog grins. WI |
| 19—20 | But I don’t have time for games |
| | This morning and send her away WI |
22
SUDDEN RAIN
:
1st
in
Midwest Quarterly
[Pittsburg (Kans.) State Univ.] 14.1 (Oct. 1972): 63; in
ANTSM
18.
| 8 | the narrow streets. / narrow streets 1st, ANTSM |
| 9 | and roll my eyes and clatter against stones. 1st, ANTSM |
23
BALZAC
:
1st
in
Levee
[Sacramento State Univ.] 2.2 (Jan. 1967): 4; in
NK
[11],
Carolina Quarterly
[Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill] 21.3 (Fall 1969): 21,
WI
34.
| 3—4 | the mist rising from his face and |
| | shoulders, the gown clinging 1st, NK, Carolina Quarterly, WI |
| 7—8 | [stanza break between these lines in 1st, NK, Carolina Quarterly, WI ] |
| 10 | stroke / smooth 1st, NK |
| 11 | young / the young 1st, NK, Carolina Quarterly, WI |
| 13 | by, / by 1st, NK, Carolina Quarterly, WI |
| 14—15 | [stanza break between these lines in 1st, NK, Carolina Quarterly, WI ] |
| 20 | early / fragile, early 1st, NK, Carolina Quarterly, WI |
| 21—5 | chamberpot. 1st, NK, Carolina Quarterly, WI |
24
COUNTRY MATTERS
:
1st
in
Ploughshares
[Emerson College] 2.3 (1975): 92; in
ANTSM
19.
| 1 | grass, / grass ANTSM |
| 8 | call. / call; 1st, ANTSM |
| 9 | Shreds / shreds 1st, ANTSM |
| 10—11 | float out onto the wintry air, |
| | but the girl does not turn her head, 1st, ANTSM |
| 12 | Cook / cook 1st, ANTSM |
| 13 | sill. / sill, 1st, ANTSM |
| 13—14 | in 1st and ANTSM there is an additional line between these lines: |
| | |
| | their faces marred with tears, their hair 1st |
| | their faces marred with tears, hair ANTSM |
| | |
| 14 | knotted. He leans closer to hear the small 1st, ANTSM |
| 15 | whisperings, the broken / whispering, the unhappy 1st |
| | whisperings, the unhappy ANTSM |
25
THIS ROOM
:
1st
in
West Coast Review
[Simon Fraser Univ.] 2.1 (Spring 1967): 22; in
Grande Ronde Review
[Sacramento, Calif.] 7 [2.1] (n.d. [1967]): 10,
WI
51.
| 4 | Promises promises 1st, Grande Ronde Review |
| 7 | parasols, / parasols 1st, Grande Ronde Review, WI |
| 8 | sea, / sea 1st, Grande Ronde Review, WI |
| 10 | behind - / behind 1st, Grande Ronde Review, WI |
| 11 | listening smoking 1st, Grande Ronde Review |
| 12 | taking notes? 1st, Grande Ronde Review, WI |
| 13—16 | [omitted in 1st, Grande Ronde Review, WI |
26
RHODES
: in
ANTSM
20—1.
| 2 | or / nor ANTSM |
| 6 | nearby / near ANTSM |
| 10 | stay, / stay ANTSM |
| 11 | though / but ANTSM |
| 17 | stiff / stone ANTSM |
| 18 | figure of a man keeps watch |
| | on Turkey. ANTSM |
| 21 | from its tail and heads |
| | for cover. ANTSM |
| 30 | there’s / I sense ANTSM |
| 35—6 | as my soul, like a cat, leaps into sleep. ANTSM |
27
SPRING
, 480
BC
:
1st
in
Toyon
[Humboldt State Univ.] 9.1 (Spring 1963): 17; in
Western Humanities Review
[Univ. of Utah] 17.3 (Summer 1963): 264,
NK
[27],
ANTSM
15,
Poetry Now
[Eureka, Calif.] 15—18 [3.3—6] (1977): 19. In
Toyon
the poem is published under the pseudonym John Vale.
| 9 | that / the 1st, Western Humanities Review, NK, ANTSM, Poetry Now |
| 10 | fetters, / fetters 1st, Western Humanities Review, NK, ANTSM, Poetry Now |
28
NEAR KLAMATH
: in
NK
[1],
WI
46,
Sou’wester Literary Quarterly
[Southern Illinois Univ., Edwardsville] Winter 1972: 36.
| 3—4 | [no stanza break in NK, WI, Sou’wester Literary Quarterly ] |
| 5 | drink it / drink NK, WI, Sou’wester Literary Quarterly |
| 6—7 | [no stanza break in NK, WI, Sou’wester Literary Quarterly ] |
| 7 | fishermen. And now / fishermen and NK |
| | fishermen and now WI, Sou’wester Literary Quarterly |
| 8 | on the snow and move upstream, slowly, NK, WI |
| | on the snow and move upstream, slowly Sou’wester Literary Quarterly |
| 9 | full of love, growing older with each step. NK, WI, Sou’wester Literary Quarterly |
29
AUTUMN
: in
NK
[15],
Quarry West
[Univ. of California, Santa Cruz] 6 (1976): n.p.,
ANTSM
38.
| 1 | yardful / yard full NK |
| 7 | [no indentation in NK, Quarry West, ANTSM ] |
| 10 | logging gear / marine-gear NK |
| 11—12 | [stanza break between these lines in NK, Quarry West, ANTSM ] |
| 13 | Slowly / And slowly NK, Quarry West, ANTSM |
| 15 | towards high water, the jack- NK, Quarry West, ANTSM |
| 16 | salmon and the sea-run cutthroat. NK, ANTSM |
| | salmon and sea-run cutthroat. Quarry West |
30
WINTER INSOMNIA
:
in
WI
23. The version in
WI
prints the four stanzas in an alternate sequence:
The mind would like to get out of here
Onto the snow. It would like to run
With a pack of shaggy animals, all teeth,
Under the moon, across the snow, leaving
No prints or spoor, nothing behind.
The mind is sick tonight.
It wishes Chekov were here to minister
Something—three drops of valerian, a glass
Of rose water—anything, it wouldn’t matter.
The mind can’t sleep, can only lie awake and
Gorge, and listen to the snow gathering
For the final assault.