A New Path to the Waterfall: Poems.

CARVER, Raymond.

Item Number: 36874

New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989.

First edition of this collection of fifty poems. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated endpapers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robbin Schiff. Introduction by Tess Gallagher.

"Carver is a writer of immense consequence. The best of his poems become unforgettable even as one reads them for the first time. They are like traffic accidents, or miraculous escapes. We come away gasping, shaken, and in awe" (Greg Kuzma, Michigan Quarterly Review).