Where Water Comes Together with Other Water

Winner of Poetry Magazine’s Levinson Prize • An illuminating collection of poems from the middle of Carver's career that “function as distilled, heightened versions of his stories, offering us fugitive glimpses of ordinary lives on the edge” ( The New York Times ). "The stories poems tell are so wonderfully self-contained, so self-evident, so gracefully metaphorical." — The Village Voice "There is a severity of language, an understatement of emotion, that endows the poems of his first major