**Carver’s gifts as a storyteller shine through his poetry ( *Los Angeles Times* ) in this collection that moves from the beauty of the world to thoughts of mortality and family and art. ** One of Raymond Carver’s final collections of poetry, this collection “has the astonished, chastened voice of a person who has survived a wreck, as surprised that he had a life before it as that he has one afterward, willing to remember both sides” ( *The New York Times Book Review* ).