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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98712.Ultramarine_Poems?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Ultramarine: Poems" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171425140m/98712.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98712.Ultramarine_Poems?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Ultramarine: Poems</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7363.Raymond_Carver">Raymond Carver</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26714113?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>Damn, Carver. How do you do it? How do you make "ordinary life" so effing interesting? Ray takes the most mundane subject and peels it up into an engaging, entertaining piece of work. Ray could take the color blue and make you see it like you're seeing it for the first time, like you've been blind your whole life. If I could only compose half as good ol' Ray. Again, most people know Ray as a short story writer but I seem to like Carver's poems more than his fiction. Moreover, I enjoyed this collection more than Where Water Comes Together With Other Water. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/260335?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>