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"Mr. Carver is heir to that most appealing American poetic voice, the lyricism of Theodore Roethke and James Wright.... this book is a treasure, one to return to. No one's brevity is as rich, as complete, as Raymond Carver's."
--New York Times Book Review
"Carver's gifts as a storyteller shine through his poetry.... Sometimes a Carver poem also works as a short story, with all its elements--character, diction, place, event--compressed intact into the brevity of verse. And sometimes Carver delivers the goods in pure lyrical form, in words as full of yearning and sensibility as those of a very young man, but poems possessing the hard-won qualities of focus, stillness and irony only rewarded by experience."
--Los Angeles Times
"Ultramarine is filled with many of the richest and most powerful poems Carver has written..."--LA Times
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John King
reviewed Ultramarine: Poems on April 07, 2019 Ultramarine: Poems
Sick with exile, they yearn homeward now, their eyes turned to the ultramarine. . .
Here it is, early April, and I can tell you, with total confidence, that Ultramarine is the best in show, the best book of the year for me. The winner.
It is, simply put, one of the best books I've ever encountered in my entire life.
Forget "poetry," people. To use the word "poetry" here is unessential.
This is writing. Period.
And, so what if this writing was produced by a white man, a writer, a good son, a bad husband, and an average father?
This writing is not about a gender, a color or a profession; it's about being declared terminal and being stripped of everything except the truth.
There's nowhere to hide here, and nothing is hidden. No concealment of the ugly things we regret we do, the nasty and wonderful creatures we are, our vacillating confidence in the meaning of our lives and the precarious unknowing of what lies beyond them.
The threat of Death didn't snuff out Raymond Carver; it cracked him open, made him leak out all over these pages.
It produced the best writing, the only type of writing I really want to read. All bullshit removed.
Strangely, after reading this, I feel incredibly alive.
I lay until daybreak, holding
both arms fast across my chest.
Working my fingers now and then.
While my thoughts kept circling
around and around, but always going back
where they'd started from.
That one inescapable fact: even while
we undertake this trip,
there's another, far more bizarre,
we still have to make.
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