Carver asked Tess Gallagher to assist him in the project. In 1982, Carver was approached by director Michael Cimino with the idea of reworking a screenplay on the life of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Carver later admitted he stopped working on the novel after two weeks, and it appears that nothing of it exists beyond the published fragment.

Additionally, Carver had accepted an advance on an unwritten novel from McGraw-Hill and planned to write a novel he imagined as 'an African Queen sort of thing' set in German East Africa after World War I. The play was published in 1992 by Engdahl Typography.Ī fragment of Carver's unfinished novel The Augustine Notebooks was published in Iowa Review (Summer 1979), and later collected in Call If You Need Me (2000) and Collected Stories (2009). In 1962, Carver wrote an absurdist one-act play entitled Carnations, which was staged on his college's campus on May 11 and received mostly negative feedback. His contribution was a letter to the editor entitled 'Where Is Intellect?', which complained about the apathy of students on campus. Other Works At CollegeĬarver's first publication was in the Chico State student newspaper, The Wildcat, on October 31, 1958. The poems 'Late Fragment' and 'Gravy' are both inscribed on his tombstone.

Notable poems include 'Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year', which grew out of the essay 'My Father's Life', and 'Gravy', which was published in The New Yorker in August 1988 following Carver's death.

Carnations (Engdahl Typography, 1992) - a one-act play.Ĭarver's 306 poems are collected in All Of Us (1996) after previously appearing in the collections: Near Klamath (1968), Winter Insomnia (1970), At Night The Salmon Move (1976), Fires (1983), Where Water Comes Together With Other Water (1985), This Water (1985), Ultramarine (1986), Early For The Dance (1986), Those Days: Early Writings By Raymond Carver: Eleven Poems And A Story (1987), In A Marine Light: Selected Poems (1987), A New Path To The Waterfall (1989), and No Heroics, Please (1991).

Dostoevsky (Capra, 1985) - screenplay (co-written with Tess Gallagher).

Two texts which are not included in any of the collections above were published separately:

Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose (Vintage, 2001) - includes the complete non-fiction (5 essays, 1 meditation, 8 comments on work, 6 introductions, 12 book reviews) 2ġThe book also includes 4 essays 2The book also includes 11 works of fiction.

All of Us (Vintage, 2000) - includes the complete poetry (306 poems).

Collected Stories (Library of America, 2009) - includes the complete fiction (72 short stories, 1 novel fragment, 17 manuscript versions) 1.

Raymond Carver's complete published works are collected in the following volumes:

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