Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories Photographyt To everyone at Meridian High

To everyone at Meridian High School

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Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories Photographyt To everyone at Meridian HighFires is the best introduction to the full range and humanity of Carver's writing. It contains four essays, including a moving memoir of his father's working life in the saw mills of the Pacific Northwest, a tribute to his mentor John Gardner, and the title essay about the influences on his writing life; fifty poems, many of them not collected elsewhere; and seven stories, including three from the early collection Furious Seasons.