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A New Path to the Waterfall

A New Path to the Waterfall
Raymond Carver

Poems deal with memories, loss of identity, childhood innocence, the past, and mortality.

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“And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.”

Raymond Carver book A New Path to the Waterfall

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