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24
AT LEAST

19
the / that AUP

25
MY BOAT
:
1st
in
Fiction Magazine
[London] 4.3 (June-July 1985): 17; in
IAML
106—7. Based on RC’s revisions in the first and all subsequent printings of the paperback edition of
WWCT
(1st pbk.), the following emendation has been made to the copy-text (1st ed.):

8
Annie, Jane 1st pbk. / Cindy, Jean 1st ed., IAML

Other variants:

4
Hayden / Dan
1st
, AUP
5
George, Harold, Don / George, Bob, Michael, Don
1st
,
 
AUP
8
And Kristina, Merry, Catherine, Diane, Sally, Annick, Pat, Judith, Susie.
 
1st
, AUP

26
WORK
: first five lines quoted in the article “In the Works” by Tom Jenks in
Esquire
102.2 (Aug. 1984): 114.
1st
complete in
New Letters
51.2 (Winter 1984—5): 16; in
Sunday Times
[London] 7 June 1987: 57,
IAML
113.

27
IN THE YEAR
2020: separately published as a broadside “on the occasion of an event honoring the life and work of RC” (Berkeley: Okeanos Press, 1993). The event was a public reading held at Black Oak Books in Berkeley, Calif., on 9 Oct. 1993.

28
THE JUGGLER AT
HEAVEN’S GATE
: 1st
in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 414.

Title: “The Juggler”
1st

Subtitle: “(Or, The Scene to Remember from
Heaven’s Gate
)”
1st

17
emigrants / landed emigrants
1st
24
Juggling / A juggler
1st

29
THE FISHING POLE OF THE DROWNED MAN
:
1st
in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 429; in
IAML
105.

Also published in this issue of
Tendril
is a version of
“The Garden”
that includes the following stanza:

Redoubtable. There’s a word!

It suited him down to the ground.

He’d fished with the rod that belonged to the deceased.

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

But later, he had his doubts.
Tendril
411

The stanza is not preserved in the collected version of “The Garden”.

30
MY DAD’S WALLET
:
1st
in
New York Times Magazine
24 June 1984: 38, accompanying the article “Raymond Carver: A Chronicler of Blue-Collar Despair” by Bruce Weber (36+); in
TW
17—18,
IAML
30—1.

30
of / charges of
1st
39—40
each of his cheeks as he looked
 
up from his figures. The same poor light
1st
, AUP

31
ASK HIM
:
1st
in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 407—8; in
IAML
189—91. Based on RC’s revision in the first and all subsequent printings of the paperback edition of
WWCT
(1st pbk.), one emendation has been made to the copy-text (1st ed.). A further revision, present only in
IAML
, is treated as a variant:

24
untroubled 1st pbk. / ordered
1st
, AUP, 1st ed.
 
      regulated
IAML

Other variants:

2—3
through the iron gates of
 
the cemetery in Montparnasse.
1st
, AUP
24
son and / son, or
1st
 
       son or AUP
42
would / had
1st
, AUP

32
NEXT DOOR
:
1st
in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 421.

8
A / Is a
1st

33
THE CAUCASUS: A ROMANCE
: in
IAML
171—3.

9
forests / forest AUP
44
Thursday / Thursdays AUP

34
A FORGE, AND A SCYTHE
: in
IAML
41.

35
THE PIPE
: in
IAML
124.

18
I’ll / Instead, I’ll AUP

36
LISTENING
:
1st
in
New Letters
[Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City] 51.2 (Winter 1984—5): 17; in
IAML
168.

37
IN SWITZERLAND
:
1st
in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 425—6; in
IAML
186—8.

38
A SQUALL
:
1st
in
New Letters
[Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City] 51.2 (Winter 1984—5), 14—15; in
IAML
127.

24
in / of
1st
, AUP

In the setting typescript of
WWCT
the poem includes a hand-canceled final stanza:

Now, there’s the bell! That’s all.

Go home and write something

before you die.

39
MY CROW
:
1st
as a holiday greeting card (Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1984); in
Poetry
[Chicago, Ill.] 145.5 (Feb. 1985): 253,
IAML
133.

8
there / here AUP

40
AFTER RAINY DAYS
:
1st
in
New Letters
[Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City] 51.2 (Winter 1984—5): 18; in
IAML
149.

11
breaking / and break
1st

41
INTERVIEW
:
1st
in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985):405.

1—4
Talking about myself all day.
 
It brought back
 
something I thought over
 
and done with. What I’d felt
1st

42
BLOOD
:
1st
in
Grand Street
[New York, NY] 4.2 (Winter 1985): 89; in
IAML
90.

43
TOMORROW
:
1st
in
Ohio Review
[Ohio Univ.] 34 (1985): 12; in
IAML
72.

13—14
Nevertheless,
 
I wish for tomorrow. In all its finery.
1st

44
GRIEF
:
1st
in
Poetry
[Chicago, Ill.] 145.5 (Feb. 1985): 254; in
IAML
134.

45
HARLEY’S SWANS
: in
TW
9—10,
IAML
75—6.

20
after / later
TW

46
ELK CAMP
:
1st
in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 423—4; in
IAML
101—2.

3
ever were / ever
1st
8
coming. / coming!
1st
10
thrown up / put together
1st
39—42
behind the shoulder where the heart
 
and lungs are located. “They might
 
run, but they won’t run far. Look
 
at it this way,” my friend said.
1st

47
THE WINDOWS OF THE SUMMER VACATION HOUSES
:
1st
in
New Letters
[Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City] 51.2 (Winter 1984—5): 12—13.

5
when / where
1st

48
MEMORY
[1]:
st
in
New Letters
[Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City] 51.2 (Winter 1984—5): 15. See
“Memory” [2]
in
U
.

13
A little / Little
1st

49
AWAY
: in
Ohio Review
[Ohio Univ.] 34 (1985): 11,
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 406.

2
hillside / side of the hill
Ohio Review, Tendril
, AUP
4
afterwards / then afterwards
Tendril
7—8
When I talked to you on the phone,
 
I tried to joke. Don’t worry
Ohio Review, Tendril
 
I talked to you on the phone,
 
tried to joke. Don’t worry AUP
11
A week later / Been a week now
Ohio Review, Tendril
12
still haven’t / haven’t
Ohio Review, Tendril

50
MUSIC
: separately published as a holiday greeting card (Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1987).

51
ALL HER LIFE
: in
IAML
53.

5
dreamt / dreamed
IAML

52
THE HAT
:
1st
in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 418—19; in
IAML
116—18.

10
all the way / closed
1st
11
and / but
1st
17
a / which is a
1st

53
LATE NIGHT WITH FOG AND HORSES
: in
Ohio Review
[Ohio Univ.] 34 (1985): 6—7,
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 422,
IAML
47—8.

4
another / it another
Tendril
5—6
there was someone else. Tears were falling.
 
When a horse stepped out of the fog
Ohio Review, Tendril
17
yard, where / yard. Where
Tendril
28
ended, / ended.
Tendril
29
something / Something
Tendril
36
a / like a
Ohio Review, Tendril

54
VENICE
:
1st
in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 415; in
IAML
86.

6
Sangallo / Rajione
1st
9
total, or / total. Or
1st
19
And history / History AUP

55
THE EVE OF BATTLE
:
1st
in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 416; in
IAML
169—70.

24
anything. He’s dressed in a morning coat and tails,
 
as if he’s on his way to some important function.
1st

56
EXTIRPATION
:
1st
in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 417.

9
each other / one another
1st

57
THE CATCH
:
1st
in
New Letters
[Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City] 51.2 (Winter 1984—5): 18.

58
MY DEATH
:
1st
in
Ohio Review
[Ohio Univ.] 34 (1985): 13.

35
believe / oh believe
1st
 
       O believe AUP

59
TO BEGIN WITH
:
1st
in
Ohio Review
[Ohio Univ.] 34 (1985): 8—10; in
IAML
32—4.

5
how every evening / every evening how
1st
, AUP
10
silent / sullen
IAML

60
THE CRANES
:
1st
in
New Letters
[Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City] 51.3 (Spring 1985): 63; in
IAML
77.

61
A HAIRCUT
: in
TW
20—1,
IAML
82—3.

7—8
as the library. There’s a window
 
there that gives light. Snow’s coming
TW
23—4
Soon, light begins to pull away
 
from the window. He stares down, lost and
IAML

62
HAPPINESS IN CORNWALL
: in
IAML
84—5.

63
AFGHANISTAN
:
1st
in
Paris Review
[Flushing, NY] 26.93 (Fall 1984): 47; separately published as a broadside “to honor R C on his induction into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters” on 18 May 1988 (Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1988).

64
IN A MARINE LIGHT NEAR SEQUIM, WASHINGTON
: in
IAML
28.

65
EAGLES
: in
IAML
100.

66
YESTERDAY, SNOW
:
1st in Grand Street
[New York, NY] 4.2 (Winter 1985): 87; in
IAML
192—3.

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