Authors: Raymond Carver
2 | as darkness / into evening as it 1st |
69
THE REST
:
1st
in
Poetry
[Chicago, Ill.] 146.6 (Sept. 1985): 347; in
IAML
174.
1—3 | Clouds hang loosely over this mountain |
| range behind my house. In a while |
| the light will go and the wind come up 1st |
18 | high blue / dying 1st |
70
SLIPPERS
:
1st
in
Raccoon
[Memphis, Tenn.] 24—5 (May 1987):176; in
IAML
198.
6 | told of / told 1st |
21 | Then called / Then AUP |
24—5 | it has moment. Those lost slippers. And the discovery |
| that brought a cry of delight. 1st |
71
ASIA
:
1st
in
Ploughshares
[Emerson College] 11.4 (1985): 78—9; in
Northwest Review
[Univ. of Oregon, Eugene] 24.1 (1986): 61,
IAML
203—4.
27—8 | [no stanza break in 1st ] |
30 | rail, / rail IAML |
36 | mind / minds IAML |
37—8 | of the horses |
| where it is always Asia. 1st, Northwest Review |
72
THE GIFT
:
1st
in
Seneca Review
[Hobart and William Smith Colleges] 15.2 (1986): 50—1; in
IAML
205—6.
8 | the airport / Galitea Airport 1st |
9 | left / left there 1st |
15 | even a / even 1st |
21 | onto the / onto 1st |
27—8 | sat in the bathroom close to the sink. If I shaved, |
| as I did one morning, the pan of water bubbled 1st |
30—1 | I sat on the bed, dressed, clean-shaven, drinking |
| coffee, putting off what I’d decided to do. Finally, 1st |
36—8 | this month. He didn’t have it.“It’s okay,” I said. |
| “I understand.” And I did. We talked |
| a little more, then hung up. He didn’t have it. 1st |
52 | moves / moves me, 1st |
First edition: New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989. Introduction by Tess Gallagher. Publication date: 15 June 1989.
First signed, limited edition: “Of the first edition of
A New Path to the Waterfall
two hundred copies have been specially printed and bound. These books are signed by Tess Gallagher and numbered 1 to 200” (limitation leaf).
First paperback edition: New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989. Publication date: May 1990.
First English edition: London: Collins Harvill, 1989. Publication date: 21 Sept. 1989.
Dedication:
Tess. Tess. Tess. Tess
Epigraph: “Gift” by Czeslaw Milosz,
The Collected Poems 1931—1987
(New York, NY:Ecco Press, 1988) 251.
Copy-text: First edition, first printing, collated and corrected against later editions and printings.
Small-press sources and separate publications:
NK, WI, ANTSM, F, TD, His Bathrobe Pockets Stuffed with Notes
(Raven, 1988),
Looking for Work/Downstream
(n.p., 1988),
The Painter and the Fish
(Ewert, 1988),
The Toes
(Ewert, 1988).
1
WET PICTURE
(
JAROSLAV SEIFERT
):
The Selected Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert
(New York, NY: Macmillan, 1986) 37.
2
TWO WORLDS
:
1st
in
Midwest Quarterly
[Pittsburg (Kans.) State Univ.] 14.1 (Oct. 1972): 63; in
TD
15.
3
SMOKE AND DECEPTION
(
CHEKHOV
): from “The Privy Councillor”,
The Wife and Other Stories,
vol. 5 of
The Tales of Chekhov,
trans. Constance Garnett (1918; New York, NY: Ecco Press, 1985) 237.
4
IN A GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH NEAR DAPHNE
:
1st
in
South Dakota Review
[Univ. of South Dakota] 10.4 (Winter 1972—3): 88; in
TD
16. All lines begin with capital letters in
1st
and
TD.
7—8 | Ruined walls. |
| Wind rises to meet the evening. 1st, TD |
5
TRANSFORMATION
: in
WI
38—9.
Title: “The Transformation”
WI
19—23 | Later we play the entire film |
| again and again. |
| I see the woman keep |
| falling and getting up, falling |
| and getting up, Arabs |
| evil-eyeing the camera. |
| I see myself striking WI |
27 | Holy Land / Holyland WI |
32 | with / like WI |
37—8 | My grin turns to salt. WI |
6
THREAT
: in
WI
33. All lines begin with capital letters in
WI.
2 | it / it, WI |
7
CONSPIRATORS
: in
WI
11. All lines begin with capital letters in
WI.
2 | woods, / woods WI |
8 | three / 3 WI |
8
THIS WORD LOVE
:
1st
in
Poet and Critic
[Iowa State Univ.] 7.1 (1972): 2; in
ANTSM
44. In
1st
RC’s assigned critics are Simon Perchik and Christine Zawadiwsky.
Title: “This Word
Love
” 1st,
ANTSM
2 | I love you / I love you 1st, ANTSM |
10 | my arm throws no shadow even, 1st, ANTSM |
11 | it too is consumed |
| with light 1st |
14 | heavy and shakes itself, 1st |
| heavy and shakes itself ANTSM |
15—16 | and begins to eat |
| through this paper. |
| Listen. 1st, ANTSM |
17—21 | [omitted in 1st, ANTSM ] |
9
DON’T RUN
(
CHEKHOV
): from “A Visit to Friends”,
The Unknown Chekhov
, vol. 14 of
The Tales of Chekhov
, trans. Avrahm Yarmolinsky (1954; New York, NY: Ecco Press, 1987) 223.
10
WOMAN BATHING
:
1st
in
West Coast Review
[Simon Fraser Univ.] 2.1 (Spring 1967): 9; in
NK
[19]. All lines begin with capital letters in
1st
and
NK.
In
1st
and
NK
there is an additional line after line 7:
| A few minutes only? |
In
1st
and
NK
a stanza break follows this line. The two resulting eight-line stanzas are printed side by side.
10 | Time is a mountain lion. 1st, NK |
11
THE NAME
(
TOMAS TRANSTRÖMER
):
Selected Poems 1954—1986
(New York, NY: Ecco Press, 1987) 93.
12
LOOKING FOR WORK
[2]: in
WI
16; see
“Looking for Work” [1]
in
F
; separately published with
“Downstream”
as a broadside (n.p.: 1988). The
ANP
version is identical with that in
WI.
The broadside, which otherwise agrees with
WI
and
ANP
, lacks the comma ending line 6 (likely a typographical error).
1 | I have / I’ve F |
13 | door, / door. F |
14 | gleaming. / They are gleaming. F |
13
THE WORLD BOOK SALESMAN
:
1st
in
Levee
[Sacramento State Univ.] 2.2 (Jan. 1967): 5; in
Prairie Schooner
[Univ. of Nebraska] 17.2 (Summer 1968): 122—3,
NK
[28],
WI
42. Lexically, all four versions agree. Punctuation and spelling differ slightly in each text, as does lineation in
1st.
Illustrations:
3 | turns he / turns, he 1st, Prairie Schooner, NK, WI |
7 | world; / world: NK |
10 | it is all there, |
| all there 1st |
12 | crack / crack, 1st, Prairie Schooner, NK, WI |
13 | slam. / slam Prairie Schooner |
20 | art. / art NK |
14
THE TOES
:
1st
in
Poetry
[Chicago, Ill.] 151.2 (Oct.—Nov. 1987): 27—8; separately published in a limited edition (Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1988).
24—5 | Are these really my toes? |
| Have they forgotten Ewert |
15
THE MOON, THE TRAIN
:
1st
in
Zyzzyva
[San Francisco, Calif.] 4.4 (Winter 1988): 63—4.
3 | sanitoriums / sanitariums 1st |
13—14 | pair is ahead? Who is keeping score? The ball goes back and |
| forth, back and forth. Everyone seems to be playing perfectly, 1st |
38 | Once more / Again 1st |
16
TWO CARRIAGES
(
CHEKHOV
): from “The Wife”,
The Wife and Other Stories
, vol. 5 of
The Tales of Chekhov
, trans. Constance M. Garnett (1918; New York, NY: Ecco Press, 1985) 64—5, 67.
17
MIRACLE
:
1st
in
Frank
[Paris] 8—9 (Winter 1987—8): 16—18.
91 | be / be, 1st |
92 | but they’re not, dead. And that’s part of 1st |
18
MY WIFE
:
1st
in
New: American and Canadian Poetry
[Trumansburg, NY] 7 (Sept. 1968): 12; in
TD
14. All lines begin with capital letters in
1st
and
TD.
19
AFTER THE FIRE
(
CHEKHOV
): from “Peasants”,
The Unknown Chekhov
, vol. 14 of
The Tales of Chekhov
, trans. Avrahm Yarmolinsky (1954; New York, NY: Ecco Press, 1987) 187.
20
from
A JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN RIVERS
(
CHARLES WRIGHT
):
The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980—1990
(New York, NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990) 224.
21
SONGS IN THE DISTANCE
(
CHEKHOV
): from “Peasants”,
The Unknown Chekhov
, vol. 14 of
The Tales of Chekhov
, trans. Avrahm Yarmolinsky (1954; New York, NY: Ecco Press, 1987) 174—5.
22
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR FISHING
(
STEPHEN OLIVER
): from
Scenes and Recollections of Fly Fishing in Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmoreland
(London: Chapman and Hall, 1834).
23
OYNTMENT TO ALURE FISH TO THE BAIT
(
JAMES CHETHAM
): from
The Angler’s Vade Mecum
(London: Thomas Bassett, 1681).
24
THE STURGEON
:
1st
in
Ball State University Forum
[Muncie, Ind.] 8.4 (Autumn 1967): 9—10; in
TD
9—11.
1 | flat side / flatside 1st, TD , AUP |
12 | itself / himself 1st |
13 | to large, freshwater rivers, 1st, TD |
14 | 100 / a 100 AUP |
| and takes a 100 years getting around |
| to its first mating. 1st, TD |
14—15 | [no stanza break in 1st, TD ] |
17 | that weighed / weighed 1st, TD |
34 | of the Yukon River |
| in Alaska 1st, TD |
39 | that went / went 1st, TD |
40 | at Celilo Falls |
| on the Columbia River. 1st, TD |
42 | a story then |
| about 3 men he knew long ago in Oregon 1st, TD |
52—5 | even then — |
| just my father there beside me |
| leaning on his arms over the railing, |
| staring, |
| the two of us staring up |
| at that great dead fish, |
| and that marvelous story of his, 1st, TD |
56 | surfacing, / all surfacing 1st, TD |
| surfacing AUP |