cover image A New Path to the Waterfall

A New Path to the Waterfall

Raymond Carver. Atlantic Monthly Press, $14 (160pp) ISBN 978-0-87113-374-8

Carver, who died in 1988, wrote these poems during his last g months. ``Many of them are luminous flashes, poised and tender meditations, while others read like cathartic, unresolved statements by a man struggling to come to terms with his life in the little remaining time allotted to him,'' found PW. (May)