The bibliography of Raymond Carver consists of 72 short stories, 306 poems, a novel fragment, a one-act play, a screenplay co-written with Tess Gallagher, and 32 pieces of non-fiction (essays, a meditation, introductions, and book reviews). In 2009, the 17 stories collected in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love were published in their manuscript form, prior to Gordon Lish's extensive editing, under the title Beginners.Carver, Raymond. Collected Stories, New York: Library of America, 2009.
Complete works Raymond Carver's complete published works are collected in the following volumes:
Collected Stories (Library of America, 2009) - includes the complete fiction (72 short stories, 1 novel fragment, 17 manuscript versions)1 All of Us (Vintage, 2000) - includes the complete poetry (306 poems) Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose (Vintage, 2001) - includes the complete non-fiction (5 essays, 1 meditation, 8 comments on work, 6 introductions, 12 book reviews)2
1The book also includes 4 essays 2The book also includes 11 works of fiction
Two texts which are not included in any of the collections above were published separately: Dostoevsky (Capra, 1985) - screenplay (co-written with Tess Gallagher) Carnations (Engdahl Typography, 1992) - a one-act play.
Books + Title Publisher Contents Notes Near Klamath Sacramento: English Club ofSacramento State College (1968) Winter Insomnia Santa Cruz: Kayak (1970) At Night the Salmon Move Santa Barbara: Capra (1976) Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? New York: McGraw-Hill (1976) 22 short stories Furious Seasons and Other Stories Santa Barbara: Capra (1977) 8 short stories What We Talk About When We Talk About Love New York: Knopf (1981) 17 short stories Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories Santa Barbara: Capra (1983);New York: Vintage (1984); New York: Vintage Contemporaries (1989) 2 essays, 50 poems,7 short stories Cathedral New York: Knopf (1983);London: Collins (1984) 12 short stories Dostoevsky Santa Barbara: Capra (1985) A Screenplay Written with Tess Gallagher Where Water Comes Together with Other Water New York: Random House (1985) 80 poems Ultramarine New York: Random House (1986) 84 poems Where I'm Calling From:New and Selected Stories New York: Atlantic Monthly (1988); Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library (1988) 37 short stories A New Path to the Waterfall New York: Atlantic Monthly (1989) 73 poems No Heroics, Please:Uncollected Writings London: Collins Harvill (1991); New York: Vintage Contemporaries (1992) stories, 19 poemsand book reviews Short Cuts:Selected Stories New York: Vintage (1993) 9 short stories, 1 poem Released to accompanyShort Cuts film (1993) All of Us:The Collected Poems New York: Vintage (2000) 306 poems Call If You Need Me:The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose New York: Vintage (2001) 10 stories, 1 novel fragment,32 pieces of nonfiction Collected Stories New York: Library of America (2009) 90 stories, 4 essays, 1 novel fragment
British editions + Title Publisher Contents Notes The Stories of Raymond Carver London: Picador (1985) 51 stories Complete contents ofWill You Please Be Quiet, Please?,What We Talk About When WeTalk About Love, and Cathedral In a Marine Light:Selected Poems London: Collins Harvill, (1987) Elephant and Other Stories London: Collins Harvill (1988) 7 short stories Includes the 7 new storiescollected in Where I'm Calling From Beginners London: Chatto Bodley Head & Cape (2009) 17 stories Manuscript version of stories included inWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Chapbooks and limited editions + Title Publisher Contents Put Yourself in My Shoes Santa Barbara: Capra (1974) 1 short story The Pheasant Worcester, MA: Metacom (1982) 1 short story Two Poems Salisbury, MD: Scarab (1982) 2 poems If It Please You Northridge, CA: Lord John (1984) 1 short story My Father's Life Derry, NH: Babcock & Koontz (1986) Biographical essay Two Poems Concord, NH: Ewert (1986) 2 poems Those Days:Early Writings by Raymond Carver Elmwood, CT: Raven (1987) 11 poems, 1 short story
Short stories