I like that poem, but it's in the exact same meter and format as a lot of great James Wright poems.
I wrote my undergrad thesis on Carver (as well as David Mamet and Susan Rothenberg, two other late-70s/early-80s who made a similar major shift in their work from fragmented essentialism to a fuller, connection-based style), and I treated him with reverence in high school and college, but I've become much more conflict about his work in the years since. I'd love to be blown away again by a poem or story of his.
― Eazy, Sunday, 21 September 2008 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link