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  <title><![CDATA[Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems]]></title>
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  <default_description>A vast collection of poems which won &quot;Poetry&quot; magazine's Levinson prize.&quot;Somehow the nuances of daily experience, the warmth, humor, and reflection the poet brings to subjects are quite unlike anyone else's.&quot; - J.Parisi</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1985</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Raymond Carver]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This Carver cat is quickly becoming one of my favorite writers.  I don't even like poetry and I liked this book. The poems here aren't a whole lot different than Carver's short stories. They chronicle the same kinds of sinking mundaneness that comes with aging, and achieve the same kind of clear-eye...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21175810">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had not read any of Carver's poetry prior to this.  The poems range in such topics as life, love, smoking, drinking, fishing, and death.  They are straightforward and convey an honesty and intimacy many poets fail to convey.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 16 17:43:21 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm actually not reading this book, but the book I am reading entitled 'All Of Us' is not on here so...who cares. same difference. All I can say about it so far is that it is a fun book to read when you're drinking whiskey from a paper cup.   ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[some of my favorite poems.  I don't have  alot of favorite poems]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Dec 19 07:26:21 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I wish my poetry sounded like.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know shit about poems.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[especially the title poem]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[..................]]></body>
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