Carver, Raymond - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Bethea, Arthur F. “Carver's Wes Hardin: From a Photograph and A Small Good Thing.” Explicator 57, no. 3 (spring 1999): 176-79.
Bethea explicates two of Carver's poems for their numeric symbolism.
———. “Raymond Carver's Poetic Technique.” In Technique and Sensibility in the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver, pp. 186-96. New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2001.
Summarizes the prevailing critical view that questions whether Carver's poetry is legitimate poetry, concluding that Carver's work is poetry “because it has a technique beyond narrative. The exact word matters, the line matters, sound matters, structure matters, the exact placement of words on the page matters.”
Chappell, Fred. “Attempts Upon Delight: Six Poetry Books.” Kenyon Review 12, no. 3 (summer 1990): 168-76.
The author dismisses A New Path to the Waterfall because “the...
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