He went on to write two more collections of stories, Cathedral and Elephant, which moved away from the earlier minimalist style into a new expansiveness, as well as several collections of poetry. Two of the stories that were later significantly revised in What We Talk About When We. and essays are included in this wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver. A wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver. This collection was edited by more than 40 per cent before publication, and Carver dedicated it to his fellow writer and future wife, Tess Gallagher, with the promise that he would one day republish his stories at full length. Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories by Raymond Carver. Carver's work began to reach a wider audience with the 1976 publication of Will You Please be Quiet, Please, but it was not until the 1981 publication of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love under Gordon Lish, then at Knopf, that he began to achieve real literary fame. His first short stories appeared in Esquire during Gordon Lish's tenure as fiction editor in the 1970s. Poet and short-story writer Raymond Carver was born in the logging town of Clatskanie, Oregon, and grew up in Yakima, Washington. Biography: Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938.
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