1st Edition

The Poetry of Raymond Carver Against the Current

By Sandra Lee Kleppe Copyright 2014
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

Best known as one of the great short story writers of the twentieth century, Raymond Carver also published several volumes of poetry and considered himself as much a poet as a fiction writer. Sandra Lee Kleppe combines comparative analysis with an in-depth examination of Carver’s poems, making a case for the quality of Carver’s poetic output and showing the central role Carver’s pursuit of poetry... Read more
Part 1 The Autopoetics of Outside and Inside, Sandra Lee Kleppe; Chapter 1 The Autopoetics of Observation, Sandra Lee Kleppe; Chapter 2 Crossover Between Poems and Stories, Sandra Lee Kleppe; Part 2 Self-Referential Poems, Sandra Lee Kleppe; Chapter 3 “All Poems Are Love Poems”, Sandra Lee Kleppe; Chapter 4 Water and Fish, Sandra Lee Kleppe; Part 3 De/Composition, Sandra Lee Kleppe; Chapter 5 Carver's Baudelaire Sandwich, Sandra Lee Kleppe; Chapter 6 What Doctors and Poets Say, Sandra Lee Kleppe; concl Conclusion, Sandra Lee Kleppe;

Biography

Sandra Lee Kleppe is Professor of English at Hedmark University College, Norway.

’Sandra Kleppe understands Carver's poems and the man who wrote them; she illuminates his work with deft, pertinent knowledge of literary theory and poetry.’ Carol Sklenicka, author of Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life