Fires Essays Poems Stories Author:Raymond Carver "You should read Fires now. These stories and poems...show the enormous talent of Raymond Carver beginning to take hold." — -- San Francisco Chronicle — "Seminal in Carver studies...A disparate collection of work bound by a unity of vision and obsession." — -- Los Angeles Herald Examiner — "Carver's most revealing book...This collection confirms the... more » worth of Raymond Carver's work...Like bright birds in distant trees, Carver's stories appear in flashes, glimpses; Fires reveals the arc of his purposeful flight."