Listening to him talking about writing in the classroom or in the living room of the big Victorian
As if it might be almost impossible to say what you wanted to say. Hardly begins to do justice to his speech this condition was aggravated whenever he was pressed into the regions of generality or prescription.Īs I say, he mumbled, and if it once seemed merely a physical tic, akin to cracking knuckles or the drumming of a foot, I now think it was a function of a deep humility and a respect for the language bordering on awe, a reflection of his sense that words A few days later the interviewer called up, near despair: Ray's voice on the tapes was nearly inaudible. Moved the tape recorder closer and closer and finally asked if Carver would put it in his lap. I once sat in and listened while Carver was interviewed for two and a half hours. Waist, saying, ''Beg pardon, Ray?'' Never insisting, rarely asserting, he was an unlikely teacher. Smoke could be filling the room, flames streaking across the carpet, before Carver would ask, ''Is it, uh, getting a little hot in here, maybe?'' And you would be sitting in your chair, bent achingly forward at the Eliot once described Ezra Pound, qua mentor, as ''a man trying to convey to a very deaf person the fact that the house is on fire.'' Raymond Carver had precisely the opposite manner. Year after his death, the recurring image I associate with Raymond Carver is one of people leaning toward him, working very hard at the act of In that order." Amongst many other pleasures it gives, this collection shows why.Raymond Carver: A Still, Small Voice By JAY McINERNEY So I suppose on my tombstone I'd be very pleased if they put 'Poet and short-story writer - and occasional essayist'. Of himself, carver wrote- "I began as a poet. It contains four essays, including a moving memoir of his father's working life in the saw-mills of the Pacific Northwest, a tribute to his mentor, John gardner, and a title essay about the influences on his writing life fifty poems and seven stories, including three from the earlier collection Furious Seasons. įires is the best introduction to the full range and humanity of carver's writing.
So I suppose on my tombstone I'd be very pleased if.
Fires is the best introduction to the full range and humanity of carver's writing.
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